Awareness Quotes

"Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion."

- Bruce Lee

"Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. — To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up."

- Bruce Lee

"'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be.'"

- Bruce Lee

"Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire."

- Pope John Paul II

"I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari."

- Bryan Ferry

"Young people recognize the big challenges that are coming up."

- Barack Obama

"There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless."

- Milan Kundera

"I wish all teenagers could filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol."

- Taylor Swift

"One of the cruelties of teenage hood is that you’ll never know what your parents were really like at your age, and they’ll never accurately remember."

- Una LaMarche

"Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it’s true."

- Cassandra Clare

"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."

- Stephen Hawking

"Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you."

- Fran Lebowitz

"Youthfulness is about how you live, not when you were born."

- Karl Lagerfeld

"Real teenage boys aren’t like characters in the books you read. They smell funny and are obsessed with video games and say dumb things. They’re still learning, just like you."

- Stacey Jay

"Adolescence is just one big walking pimple."

- Carol Burnett

"As I’ve said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager."

- Joe Bob Briggs

"Teenagers complain there’s nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it."

- Bob Phillips

"Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing it."

- Jesse Owens

"All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you."

- Sebastian Coe

"The concept of always being reachable makes us present nowhere."

- Peter Arvai

"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

- Aesop

"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."

- Alan Watts

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

- John Ruskin

"Don't let the shadows of yesterday spoil the sunshine of tomorrow. Live for today."

- Nandina Morris

"I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you."

- Anne Frank

"I don’t believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I’m scared in case something will happen if I don’t do them."

- Abby Wambach

"In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball."

- Sir Bobby Charlton

"If I had to make a tackle, I have already made a mistake."

- Carlo Ancelotti

"I complained that I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet."

"Football is the ballet of the masses."