Awareness Quotes

"Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity."

- Coco Chanel

"When you go through something, like, you learn to appreciate little things - the birds, trees, flowers."

- Grizz Chapman

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."

- Zahid Abas

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Whenever someone like a plumber or a mechanic tries to explain something technical to me, I listen for about three seconds before it all just becomes white noise, like Charlie Brown’s teacher."

- John Niven

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

- Gandhi

"We need to live in a culture that values and respects and looks up to and idolizes women as much as men."

- Emma Watson

"That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free."

- Shirley Chisholm

"Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly. Let but the future be opened to her, and she will no longer be compelled to linger in the present."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"The problem that has no name—which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities—is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease."

- Betty Friedan

"Good Friday, the day when Christians remember the crucifixion of Jesus. The crucifixion and resurrection are the central events in the Christian faith. That is why Good Friday and Easter Sunday are such important days in the Christian year. The cross is the central theme of worship."

- Gordon Geddes

"When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, ‘Truly this was the Son of God!’"

- Bible

"Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries."

- Warren W. Wiersbe

"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."

- Romans 3:23

"Can any man here estimate the number of his own sins from the first transgression of his childhood until grey old age, or the present period of his life?"

- Charles Spurgeon

"Few ever think about the dreadful implications of being under the wrath of God. And none of us even begins to realize how truly sinful we are."

- Jerry Bridges

"Sin is, by nature, anti-life because it relationally severs us from the source of life itself—God."

- Matt Bohlman

"Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I've begun to fear more that that is letting the moment pass without saying anything. I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn't speak up. When we didn't say "I love you." When we should've said "I'm Sorry." When we didn't stand up for ourselves or some one who needed help."

- Taylor Swift

"Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial."

- Taylor Swift

"Nurses are like icebergs. At any one time, you are only seeing what they are actually doing."

- Ian Miller

"Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch."

- Florence Nightingale

"The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems."

- Richard Rohr

"Attention shifted… like sunflowers turning to the sun."

- Khaled Hosseini

"Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and hollyhock."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets."

- Edna Ferber

"Those who say they understand chess, understand nothing."

- Robert Hübner

"It doesn’t matter how strong a player you are, if you fail to register some development in the opening, then you are asking for trouble."

- John Emms

"Don’t underestimate the power of words. Words can motivate, inspire, educate, energize and mobilize."

"She will never take for granted a spoken word. She will never consider a step ordinary. When her child says momma for the first time, she will be witness to a miracle and know it."

"On Sundays, the world slows down just for you."