Quotes about Awareness

But the greatest activity of life is well within your dominion. You can choose what you think about.

Maybe, if you had your way, your day would never end. Every moment demands to be savored. You resist sleep as long as possible because you love being awake so much. If you are like that, congratulations. If not, welcome to the majority.

You can be the air traffic controller of your mental airport. You occupy the control tower and can direct the mental traffic of your world.

And because we look for the bonfire, we miss the candle. Because we listen for the shout, we miss the whisper. But it is in burnished candles that God comes, and through whispered promises he speaks: "When you doubt, look around; I am closer than you think.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

I'm grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love — for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I'm grateful to know that it exists.

In order to avoid this bitter end, we would all have to be born again, and born with the knowledge of alternatives. Even then?

You do your best until you know better, then you do better.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.