Quotes about Awareness
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.
— Bill Gates
Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.
— Oprah Winfrey
If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.
— Denzel Washington
Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
— Alice Hoffman
Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.
— Alice Hoffman
The children knew that which you cannot see can be more dangerous than that which is before you.
— Alice Hoffman
I had been blind to the pain of others until I had my own burden to carry.
— Alice Hoffman
You think terrible things can't happen because they've never happened to you, but they're out there, all the time, every day. They happen to someone.
— Alice Hoffman
I thought perhaps it was more important to listen than to be heard.
— Alice Hoffman
Close your eyes and listen, such people advised, then walk twenty paces farther than you thought necessary. Just when you're certain you've lost your way completely, you'll be there. Open your eyes.
— Alice Hoffman
Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
— Alice Walker
If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
— Alice Walker