Awareness Quotes

"One may smile, and smile, be a villain."

- William Shakespeare

"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on."

- William Shakespeare

"For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds."

- William Shakespeare

"The Devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape."

- William Shakespeare

"Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come."

- William Shakespeare

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

- Aldous Huxley

"Understanding purpose is one thing, but recognizing the importance of having purpose is another. Everybody has a unique purpose in their life, whether it be to help others, provide for family, or be free."

- Ben Gothard

"The two most important days in life are the day you born and the day you discover the reason why."

- Mark Twain

"When people maintain pin-drop silence at your life, you are almost dead and when people maintain non-stop noise in your life, you are utmost alive"

- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"Dig deep enough in every heart and you’ll find it: a longing for meaning, a quest for purpose. As surely as a child breathes, he will someday wonder, What is the purpose of my life?"

- Max Lucado

"We’ve made the church so much like a country club that it’s a surprise they let us keep our tax exempt status!"

- Steven Furtick

"The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it."

- Charles Spurgeon

"If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside."

- Elizabeth von Arnim

"Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret."

- Bill Bryson

"Some people walk in the rain; others just get wet."

- Roger Miller

""Remember: Nurses are like icebergs. At any one time, you are only seeing what they are actually doing.""

- Ian Miller

"To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads."

- Jon Bing

"It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell."

- Jarrett J. Krosoczka

"Who Needs a Librarian and Cataloger When You Have Google and Internet? Well, Who Needs a Teacher When You Have Wikipedia? And, Who Needs a Doctor When You Have WebMD? Just as the Wikipedia Doesn't Replace the Teacher, and WebMD Doesn’t Replace the Doctor, In the Same Way, Google Search and Internet Doesn’t Replace the Librarian and Cataloger."

- Salman Haider

"Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don't get bigheaded about something we just discovered and I can be humble about where we might go next. Because you can see who got stuff right and most of the people who got stuff wrong."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community."

- Aaron Swartz

"When I was sixteen, I borrowed a copy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from the mobile library. Democrats and Republicans were standing for very different principles, and I could see which side was going to represent me."

- James Carville

"The health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries."

- Carl Sagan

"Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."

- Ray Bradbury

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy."

- Hamlet

"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom."

- Jonathan Swift

"No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odour to the nostrils."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Retirement is the only time in your life when time no longer equals money."