Quotes about Awareness

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.

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

We are sa blind as we want to be

under my eye, but not my thumb.

We are only as blind as we want to be

Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.

A lack of courage allows us to remain blinded to our own history and deaf to the cries of our past.

Last year changed its seasons subtly, stripped its sultry winds for the reds of dying leaves, let gelid drips of winter ice melt onto a warming earth and urged the dormant bulbs to brave the pain of spring. We, loving, above the whim of time, did not notice. Alone. I remember now.