Awarness Quotes

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Anaïs Nin

 

“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” Demosthenes

 

“Very few people really see things unless they’ve had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.” Denise Levertov

 

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” Eleanor Chaffee

 

“People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.” Elias Canetti

 

“I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.” Garrison Keillor

 

“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.” Henry David Thoreau

 

“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.” Henry David Thoreau

 

“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” Henry Miller

 

“Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.” James Thurber

 

“The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.” Willa Cather

 

“A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.” Jessamyn West

 

“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.” Linda Hogan

 

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” M. Scott Peck

 

“The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn’t, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.” Monica Baldwin

 

“If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.” Rachel Carson