Quotes about Awareness
Violence begins with the fork.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
— John Donne
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
— Marcus Aurelius
One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
— Vincent Van Gogh
But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
— AA Milne
Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.
— Joseph Campbell
We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
— Ronald Reagan
Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.
— Conan O'Brien
We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Use your life to wake you up.
— Pema Chodron
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson