Quotes about Awareness
It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.
— Henry David Thoreau
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
— Henry David Thoreau
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, [...] compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?
— Henry David Thoreau
The poem of the world is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it.
— Henry David Thoreau
the conductor shouts All aboard! when the smoke is blown away and the vapor condensed, it will be perceived that a few are riding, but the rest are run over—and it will be called, and will be, A melancholy accident.
— Henry David Thoreau
There can be no very black melancholy for him who has his senses still and lives in the midst of nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?
— Henry David Thoreau
Nothing was ever so unfamiliar and startling to a man as his own thoughts
— Henry David Thoreau
To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. Let us improve our opportunities, then, before the evil days come.
— Henry David Thoreau
Confucius said, To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
— Henry David Thoreau
The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We
— Henry David Thoreau
What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.
— Henry David Thoreau