Awareness Quotes

"What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so."

- Mark Twain

"The greatest enemy will always hide in the last place you would ever look."

- Julius Caesar

"When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive."

- Bruce Lee

"Peering from some high window, at the gold of November sunset and feeling that if day has to become night, this is a beautiful way."

- E. E. Cummings

"If you open your eyes very wide and look around you carefully, you will always see a lighthouse which will lead you to the right path! Just watch around you carefully!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Whoever established the high road and how high it should be should be fired."

- Sandra Bullock

"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"

- George Carlin

"Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody’s gonna die. Come watch TV."

- Morty

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."

- Isaac Asimov

"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’"

- Sydney J. Harris

"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian."

- Dennis Wholey

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

- Mark Twain

"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."

- Charles Dudley Warner

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're OK, then it's you."

- Rita Mae Brown

"Sometimes, you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about. That always worries me!"

- Charlie Brown

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open."

- Frank Zappa

"The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?"

- Captain Jack Sparrow

"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me — they’re cramming for their final exam."

- George Carlin

"If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."

- Yogi Berra

"Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you."

- Jim Collins

"Most men would rather die, than think. Many do."

- James C. Collins

"The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any moment of your life. Life is Advent; life is recognizing the coming of the Lord."

- Henri Nouwen

"In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment."

- Frederick Buechner

"Take time to be aware that in the very midst of our busy preparations for the celebration of Christ’s birth in ancient Bethlehem, Christ is reborn in the Bethlehems of our homes and daily lives."

- Edward Hays

"Each year, God asks us to shed one more coat of awareness, one more dream state and come alive to the vision of God’s plan for each of us and the world-at-large."

- Rev. Alfred McBride, O. Praem.

"The mystery of the Holy Night, which historically happened two thousand years ago, must be lived as a spiritual event in the ‘today' of the Liturgy. The Word who found a dwelling in Mary's womb comes to knock on the heart of every person with singular intensity this Christmas."

- St. John Paul II

"The liturgy of Advent…helps us to understand fully the value and meaning of the mystery of Christmas. It is not just about commemorating the historical event, which occurred some 2,000 years ago in a little village of Judea. Instead, it is necessary to understand that the whole of our life must be an ‘advent,' a vigilant awaiting of the final coming of Christ."

- St. Pope John Paul II

"The twelve days of Christmas come to an end on January 6, and the season of the Epiphany begins. But Epiphany not only ends Christmas, it also fulfills it by celebrating the revelation of the Christ to the whole world."

- Phyllis A. Tickle

"November whispers the arrival of winter, inviting us to appreciate the beauty of seasonal transitions."

- Meredith Gaston

"I never forget a face—but in your case, I’ll be glad to make an exception."