Awareness Quotes

"Everything has beauty. But not everyone sees it."

- Confucius

"Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous."

- Brené Brown

"Extraordinary magic is woven through ordinary life. Look around!"

- Amy Leigh Mercree

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges."

- Anatole France

"A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible."

- William Baldwin

"Like you, I know people who drink, people who do drugs, and bosses who have tantrums and treat their subordinates like dirt. They all have good jobs. Were they to become homeless, some of them would surely also become ‘alcoholics,’ ‘addicts,’ or ‘mentally ill."

- Elliot Liebow

"Escaping poverty among the physical barriers is difficult, but with the added emotional toll, it’s almost impossible. It’s not as simple as we’d like to think."

- Terence Lester

"Homeless exist because billionaires exist. In polarity, there is extreme poverty and extreme wealth. Bridge the gap between the two and you will find balance and an earth that will survive the threat of humanity’s self-imposed climate change. Earth is a reflection of humanity."

- Deborah Bravandt

"We live in a world where there is so much wealth. There shouldn’t be a homeless person. That’s crazy."

- Raheem de Vaughn

"Homelessness is not just about having a job or an apartment. Too often homelessness is due to a disordered mind."

- Danielle Steel

"Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew."

- Jewel

"Poverty is the mother of crime."

- Marcus Aurelius

"One of the toughest jobs we have is convincing some people that we’re not making up this problem. The homeless out here may be harder to see, but they are all around, right beneath the surface."

- Dottie Kastigar

"The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world."

- Paul Dano

"Homelessness is not the result of not having a house, it’s a lack of a soul in a body."

- Goitsemang Mvula

"Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them."

- Nelson Mandela

"Not everyone who’s homeless is a drug-addict or in need of mental health care. Some are normal people who’ve been knocked down, and it can happen to you too. Not all of us made bad life choices."

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

"Seven out of ten Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless."

- Pras Michel

"These things become the norm: that some homeless people die of cold on the streets is not news. In contrast, a ten-point drop in the stock markets of some cities is a tragedy."

- Pope Francis

"People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It’s too much to deal with."

- Michael Zaslow

"Fear is dangerous. It creates an environment in which it’s acceptable to treat those experiencing poverty and homelessness with anger and hate. The first step to stopping this is to realize that this fear is unfounded and dangerous."

- Terence Lester

"The biggest misconception about the homeless is that they got themselves in the mess — let them get themselves out. Many people think they are simply lazy. I urge those to make a friend at a local mission and find out how wrong these assumptions are."

- Ron Hall

"We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can’t solve."

- Linda Lingle

"A lot of communities pretend they don’t have homeless and just ignore them or try to make them go away."

- Alexandra C. Pelosi

"Making it so you don’t have to look at homeless people isn’t a solution to homelessness."

- Sara Luterman

"People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It’s almost maddening"

- Daphne Zuniga

"You’ll never figure it all out."

"The world is wide, and the weekend is short."

"Capture every flavor of life this weekend."

"Awaken your senses to the weekend’s natural grace."