Awareness Quotes

"Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion"

- Alfred Binet

"Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline"

- Mikhail Botvinnik

"I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of Chess"

- Siegbert Tarrasch

"Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."

- Buddha

"We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365."

- Mary Martin

"Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Christmas is never over, unless you want it to be…Christmas is a state of mind."

- Lauren Myracle

"Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store."

- Dr. Seuss

"Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree."

- Charlotte Carpenter

"As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is."

- Eric Sevareid

"And so this is Christmas…what have you done?"

- John Lennon

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Wake up and live."

- Bob Marley

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

- Rafiki

"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it."

- Epictetus

"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

"It can be easy to get swept up into catastrophizing the situation once your thoughts become negative. When you begin predicting doom and gloom, remind yourself that there are many other potential outcomes."

- Amy Morin

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

- Ray Bradbury

"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes."

- Alan Wilson Watts

"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."

- Alan Watts

"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."

- Alan Watts

"What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously."

- Alan Watts

"We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future."

- Alan Watts

"The source of all light is in the eye."

- Alan Wilson Watts

"Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them."

- Alan Wilson Watts

"Suppressing the fear of death makes it all the stronger. The point is only to know, beyond any shadow of doubt, that 'I' and all other 'things' now present will vanish, until this knowledge compels you to release them - to know it now as surely as if you had just fallen off the rim of the Grand Canyon. Indeed you were kicked off the edge of a precipice when you were born, and it's no help to cling to the rocks falling with you. If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are."

- Alan Wilson Watts

"I looked into her brain and she wasn’t thinking about the game!"

"Listen. That little voice is your soul leading you to your purpose."

"November: That awkward month when you realize Christmas is almost here and you haven't done any shopping."