Awareness Quotes

"We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness."

- Sapna Reddy

"Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it there."

- Robb Sagendorph

"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?"

- E. M. Forster

"A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves—a special kind of double."

- Toni Morrison

"What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention."

- Claire Cook

"Sisters examine each other so they can have a map for how they should behave."

- Michael D. Kahn

"An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."

- Ambrose Bierce

"Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Many of the greatest crimes in history were caused not by hatred, but rather by indifference. They were caused by people who could have done something, but did not even bother lifting a finger."

- Yuval Noah Harari

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."

- George Orwell

"People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't."

- Christopher Paolini

"I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly."

- Cassandra Clare

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."

- Carl Sagan

"History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?"

- Dan Brown

"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains."

- Rosa Luxemburg

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."

- Edmund Burke

"If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree."

- Michael Crichton

"If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree."

- Michael Crichton

"If you’ve ever retreated behind your bedroom door and cried in overwhelm, you might be an introverted mother."

- Jamie C. Martin

"Mothers are all slightly insane."

- J. D. Salinger

"Mothers talk about sleep the way someone who is starving talks about food."

- Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D

"Motherhood means I’m always a little bit awake, a little bit alert at all times."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Sleep at this point is just a concept, something I’m looking forward to investigating in the future."

- Amy Poehler

"A mother need only step into the shower to be instantly reassured she is indispensable to every member of her family."

- Lynne Williams

"What seems insignificant when you have it is important when you need it."

- Franz Grillparzer

"If you don’t understand, ask questions. If you’re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It’s easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?"

- Matthew 6:27

"For our God is a consuming fire."

- Hebrews 12:29