Quotes about Awareness

He did nothing, but he looked on as few other men could have done.

It made my heart ache to think of this miserable trifling, in the streets of a city where every stone seemed to call to me, as I walked along, 'Turn this way, man, and see what waits to be done!' So I decoyed myself into another train of thought to ease my heart.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

It is while you are patiently toiling at little tasks that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn upon you.

With the Past, as past, I have nothing to do; nor with the Future, as future. I live now...

[Silence] is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

Do battle against prejudice and discrimination wherever you find it.

Pay as much attention to the things that are working positively in your life as you do to those that are giving you trouble.

When Niebuhr thought a little more deeply about Darrow's empathy with black suffering, however, he said, "I suppose it is difficult to escape bitterness when you have eyes to see and heart to feel what others are too blind and too callous to notice."

When persons encounter God's self-disclosure, they not only know who God is but also who they are.