Awareness Quotes

"That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane."

- Erich Fromm

"It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health."

- Erich Fromm

"the normal or the usual is requisite for any understanding of the abnormal or the unusual."

- Milton H. Erickson

"Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering his position and the situation on the personality market. He is alienated from himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself, his "personality package" with others who are equally intent on a fair and profitable exchange. Life has no goal except the one to move, no principle except the one of fair exchange, no satisfaction except the one to consume."

- Erich Fromm

"People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right-hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds."

- Carl Rogers

"You can't get too much winter in the winter."

- Robert Frost

"Losing feels worse than winning feels good."

- Vin Scully

"Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much."

- Steve Nash

"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games."

- Babe Ruth

""The trouble is, you think you have time.""

- Buddha

""Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.""

- Clare Boothe Luce

"Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person."

- Sylvia Plath

"The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence."

- Dean Koontz

"Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves."

- Terence McKenna

"The only other sound’s the sweep, Of easy wind and downy flake."

- Robert Frost

"There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on."

- Carol Rifka Brunt

"Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair, you know that."

- John Marston

""My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'""

- James Caan

"The real world isn't what I thought it was."

- Barbie

"Why didn't Barbie tell me about patriarchy?"

- Ken

"You guys are not doing patriarchy very well."

- Ken

"When I found out the patriarchy wasn't about horses, I lost interest anyway."

- Ken

"She thinks I’m a fascist? I don’t control the railways or the flow of commerce!"

- Stereotypical Barbie

""When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It’s simple: if you aren’t willing to receive your share, it will go to someone else who is.""

- T. Harv Eker

"Let the sunshine and the beautiful flowers remind you that this Saturday morning is the beautiful work of someone above the sky. Happy Saturday."

"The beauty of a game lies in its challenging complexity."

"Accept the moment"

"Everything has beauty"

"Only one life"

"Real is beautiful"