Quotes about Awareness

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.

None are so ready to find fault with others as those who do things worthy of blame themselves.

It is easier to fool the people, than to convince them they have been fooled.

If you don't read the newspapers, you are uniformed. If you do read them, you are misinformed.

Not a sparrow falls to the ground without His seeing it. But it falls, just the same. What good is seeing it fall?

And now we get realized to us once more another thing which we often forget—or try to: that no man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in one way or another all men are mad.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born an the day you find out why.

Some instinct tells me that eternal vigilance is the price of supremacy.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus

When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end. At one talk I was asked, "What's the difference between yourself and someone without mental illness?" At another talk I was asked, "How do you make the voices be not so mean?" I wish I knew.

Maybe just being open to things being connected made us see more. Now I shudder whenever I find that sort of connectedness creeping into my life.