Awareness Quotes

"“Negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.”"

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Romans 3:23

"Those who guard their lips preserve their lives, but those who speak rashly will come to ruin."

- Proverbs 13:3

"In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light."

- Rumi

"The silence in the morning holds lots of expectations and is more hopeful than the silence at night."

- Victoria Durnak

"It is a serious thing – just to be alive – on this fresh morning – in this broken world."

- Mary Oliver

"Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have."

- Lemony Snicket

"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep."

- Rumi

"It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you."

- Abu Bakr

"Get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed."

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

"I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

- Robert Frost

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is."

- Angelina Jolie

"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

- Bertrand Russell

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it"

- Charles R. Swindoll

"You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to."

- Good Will Hunting

"Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

"The scariest thought in the world is that someday I’ll wake up and realize I’ve been sleepwalking through my life: under-appreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear and the habitual."

- George Saunders

"When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up."

- Arthur Wellesley

"The moment we stop analyzing and let go, we can start really seeing, feeling – as one whole."

- Bruce Lee

"The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves."

- Frank Shamrock

"To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant"

- Taisen Deshimaru

"Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind."

- Bruce Lee

"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."

- William Wallace

"If you try to aim for it, you are turning away from it."

- Zen Proverb

"Call no man happy till he is dead."

- Aeschylus, Ancient Greek playwright

"Welcome to the club of adults who still don’t have it all figured out. Spoiler alert: No one does. Happy 21st!"

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."