Quotes about Awareness

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

I'll start with the small things

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

Admire as much as you can; most people do not admire enough.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.