Awareness Quotes

"You have two lives, the second one begins when you realize you only have one."

- Confucius

"On Sundays, the world is as bright and empty as a balloon."

- Joseph Roth

"It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on."

- Sun Tzu

"The two decisive powers of the government with respect to war are the power to conscript and the power to tax."

- A.J. Muste

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

- Voltaire

"War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isnt any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyones being worse off."

- Karl Kraus

"War is sweet to those who havent tasted it."

- Erasmus of Rotterdam

"The most violent element in society is ignorance."

- Emma Goldman

"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure."

- Lyndon Johnson

"Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists."

- Sydney J. Harris

"He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature."

- Madeline Miller

"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires."

- Ayn Rand

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Why is it that men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?"

- Barbra Streisand

"We must teach our children to smell the earth, to taste the rain, to touch the wind, to see things grow, to hear the sun rise and night fall –  to care."

- John Cleal

"Times have changed, but children haven’t. Young kids are on the same evolutionary path they’ve always been on. It’s our expectations that are off. We’re trying to make children ready for the next stage of life before natural development allows them to be ready."

- Heather Shumaker

"Bad weather looks worse through a window."

- Tom Lehrer

"What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?"

- Richard Louv

"The cloud is not the disturbance. The fact that you have stopped looking at the rest of the sky is what is disturbing you."

- Sarita Mian

"Solitude is the strength of being alone, which is very different from loneliness."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"If they take half the buildings that they use to praise God and give it to the motherf--kers who need God we'd be 'aight."

- Tupac Shakur

"To call yourself an alcoholic or a drug addict is a badge of honour, because the secret – the shameful secret – is the reason that it is such a pervasive illness."

"I have no power at all over people, places, and things, and if I ever for a moment mistakenly believe that I do, pain is on its way."

"‘Feelings aren’t facts’ tells me that my feelings are real, but they aren’t reality."

"Find the magic in everyday moments. Saturdays remind us to unravel it."

"You’re 14,600 days old, but who’s counting?"

"40 is when your body gives your brain a list of things it’s not going to do anymore."

"Take time on Saturdays to appreciate the beauty around you."

"Every moment Matters"

"Sometimes you need those bad days because it helps you truly appreciate the good ones."