Awareness Quotes

"Intention directs perception"

- Jaco Snoek

"New Year’s Day is a good time to fix one’s eyes on the only way to begin the year as we should: in humility."

- Elisabeth Elliot

"Approach the new year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day."

- Michael Josephson

"Midnight on New Year’s Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present."

- Hillary DePiano

""Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.""

- Mark Twain

""The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.9% of them are made by people who are still alive.""

- Joshua Burns

"Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you."

- John Green

"Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human."

- Sarah Dessen

"What if parenting became less about telling our children who they should be and more about asking them again and again forever who they already are?"

- Glennon Doyle

"When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at least, begun to."

- Helen Rowland

"What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."

- Voltaire

"You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look."

- Seymour Hicks

"Don’t learn safety by accident."

- Jerry Smith

"Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing."

- Will Smith

"We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves."

- Leonora Carrington

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"I think relationships are broken up because of the media."

- Jay-Z

"The truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you."

- Jay-Z

"Driving Benzes with no benefits, not bad huh, for some immigrants."

- Jay-Z

"So often we become focused on the finish line that we fail to enjoy the journey."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that."

- Norton Juster

"I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet."

- Olivia Thirlby

"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less."

- Marie Curie

"Beauty is the illumination of the soul."

- John O'Donohue

"In the eyes of a child, you will see the world as it should be."

"Don’t think of cost. Think of value."

"Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly."

"Let your 60th birthday be a reminder that life is precious, and every moment counts."

"Eyebrows speak louder than words"