138 quotes
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our freedom.”
— Viktor Frankl
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
— Henri Bergson
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
— Confucius
“The unexamined life is not worth living”
— Socrates
“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”
— Dion Boucicault
“The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware joyously drunkenly serenely divinely aware”
— Henry Miller
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
— Ram Dass
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“The moment you become aware of the ego in you it is strictly speaking no longer the ego”
— Eckhart Tolle
“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”
— Hafiz
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.”
“The little things they are not little”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Apprehend God in all things for God is in all things.”
— Meister Eckhart
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have make the now the primary focus of your life”
“You are the unchanging awareness in which all activity takes place”
— Mooji
“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
— Lao Tzu
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
— Thornton Wilder
“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience.”
— Joseph Goldstein
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be if there is one it is what is already here the inferno where we live every day”
— Italo Calvino
“The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Its being here now that is important. There is no past and there is no future.”
— George Harrison
“Wherever you go there you are”
“We cannot change what we are not aware of and once we are aware we cannot help but change”
— Sheryl Sandberg
“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
— Plato
“I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”
— Harriet Tubman
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”
— Wayne Dyer
“The only thing I am certain of is that I know nothing.”
“If your emotional abilities are not in hand if you do not have self-awareness your self-management will suffer”
— Daniel Goleman
“Wherever you go, there you are.”
“To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
— Nathaniel Branden
“The moth does not see the flame as fire; the fish does not feel the water as wet. So we do not notice the medium of our own lives.”
— Zhuangzi
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here.”
— Jan Chozen Bays
“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves”
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive: to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind.”
— Gautama Buddha
“The whole path of mindfulness is this: whatever you are doing, be aware of it.”
— Dipa Ma
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
— William Blake
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— Anaïs Nin
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Positive emotions broaden our awareness and open us up to new possibilities.”
— Barbara Fredrickson
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
— W.B. Yeats
“Awareness is like the sky thoughts and feelings come and go like clouds”
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
“Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves and kindness begins with awareness”
— Jack Kornfield
“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”
— John Stuart Mill
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have.”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
— Rosa Luxemburg
“One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.”
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself and time is the catalyst”
— Abraham Maslow
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy”
— Anne Frank
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be it is what is already here”
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“Remember, it is being aware of thoughts, not getting rid of them, that is the point.”
— Andy Puddicombe
“Know thyself.”
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself”
“The trouble is that once you see it you cannot unsee it and once you have seen it keeping quiet saying nothing becomes as political an act as speaking out”
— Arundhati Roy
“I was only a young girl when I realized the grave injustice of taking peoples land and culture”
— Zitkala-Sa
“The separate self is an intermittent experience awareness is the ever-present background”
— Rupert Spira
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.”
— Pema Chodron
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice”
— R.D. Laing
“The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe to ask the right questions and to elevate the mind”
— Marina Abramovic
“When we become aware of our humility, we have already lost it. Thus we may be most truly grateful when we are not aware that we are grateful.”
— Thomas Merton
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.”
“You are not your mind you are the awareness behind the thoughts”
“The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences and Teflon for positive ones.”
— Rick Hanson
“There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.”
“I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory”
— Fernando Pessoa
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
— William Shakespeare
“Knowledge is discovering what you know and what you don't know.”
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“Your power is in your thoughts so stay awake. In other words remember to remember.”
— Rhonda Byrne
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”
— Unknown
“If your emotional abilities are not in hand if you do not have self-awareness then no matter how smart you are you are not going to get very far”
“In life there are things that make your heart beat faster in delight”
— Sei Shonagon
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, if this is not nice, I do not know what is.”
“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life in my family and never seen.”
— John Steinbeck
“Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things in the web of life”
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.”
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition man is the only being who knows he is alone”
— Octavio Paz
“The general population doesnt know whats happening, and it doesnt even know that it doesnt know.”
— Noam Chomsky
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves is to remain ignorant.”
“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all living beings”
“Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life.”
— Solomon
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
— Carl Jung
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is — infinite.”
“Learning is the process of realizing how much you don't know.”
— John Locke
“Meditation is not about becoming a different person, a new person, or even a better person. It is about training in awareness.”
“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.”
— Jesus of Nazareth
“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow.”
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we are so used to them we call them ordinary things.”
— Hans Christian Andersen
“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my life. Creativity is wakefulness.”
— Zadie Smith
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
— Laozi
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
“We are always falling in love or quarreling rejecting something or clinging to it”
— Charlotte Joko Beck
“You are not a person you are the awareness in which the person appears”
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
— Siddhartha Gautama
“The only thing rising faster than sea levels is awareness”
— Naomi Klein
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it”
“Awareness is the nature of your being it is not something that comes and goes”
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
— John Lubbock
“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it.”
— Jean Paul Richter
“The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.”
— Junius
“Nature is an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”
— George Washington Carver
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
— Aldous Huxley
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