Awareness Quotes

"Clutter is not just physical stuff, it’s old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits"

- Eleanor Brownn

"If I have to feel thankful about an accessible bathroom, when am I ever gonna be equal in the community?"

- Judith Heumann

"Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons."

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Not all addictions are rooted in abuse or trauma, but I do believe they can all be traced to painful experience. A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors."

- Gabor Maté

"Emotions are so different in every situation and every moment, so I think to agonise every moment is what life is."

- BTS's Suga

"It is better to anticipate than to react."

- Bobby Knight

"How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, Culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It’s culture that obliges people to realize some possibilities while forbidding others. Biology enables women to have children – some cultures oblige women to realize this possibility. Biology enables men to enjoy sex with one another – some cultures forbid them to realize this possibility. Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behavior, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist."

- Yuval Noah Harari

"It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within."

- Bell Hooks

"If you only face forward, there is something you will miss seeing."

- Vash the Stampede

"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

"Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who’s listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ‘That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ‘I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less than me?"

- Jay-Z

"Any friend that turns into an enemy has been hating since day one."

- 2Pac

"In the twilight of the morning, all life silently waits for the sunrise. Sun must rise for the darkness to sink."

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"If you close your eyes, no lighthouse can help you!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Dreams are easy to create but hard to kill, so you've created a lot of dreams, but you don't have many lives! Sit down and calmly say goodbye to some of your dreams! And now that your load has been reduced, you can move forward towards your few but important dreams!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Not humans, but birds often witness the most beautiful mornings in this world!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"There are boundaries that dictate life: you can only lift so much weight; you can only learn so fast; you can only work so hard; you can only go so far!"

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"The sweetness we taste in a piece of sugar is neither a property of the sugar nor a property of ourselves. We are producing the experience of sweetness in the process of interacting with the sugar."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Suicide doesn’t solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse."

- Sinead O'Connor

"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"But the word “right” is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"Luck runs out but safety is good for life."

- Author Unknown

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

"I knew well enough that one could fracture one’s legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too."

- Vincent van Gogh

"The night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

- Vincent van Gogh

"There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

- Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller's Day Off