Awareness Quotes

"My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realize that you are not the boss. It is the other way around."

- Federico Fellini

"I definitely have days where I say, ‘Why me?’ And then I go, ‘Well, why not me? Who else? Who else besides me deserves this?’ None of us do."

- Shannen Doherty

"I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and examined...imposed silence about any area of our lives is a tool for separation and powerlessness."

- Audre Lorde

"Ultimately, they're just breasts right? I mean, I love them, they're mine, they're beautiful, but in the grand scheme of things, I would rather be alive and I would rather grow old."

- Shannen Doherty

"If I can make my cancer purposeful, [I want to] have people understand that if you feel anything amiss, you have to say something. You might not get a response from your doctor that you like. They might push it off and say you don’t need a test or we’ll get you in at your next physical. But we know our body’s best."

- Clea Shearer

"My diagnosis flung me into despair until it hit me: I’m Alive"

- Dana Dinerman

"If you have any doubt, go back again...because someone is in a white coat and using big medical instruments doesn’t necessarily mean they’re right."

- Kylie Minogue

"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."

- Oscar Wilde

"“Everything is as though everything is a miracle.”"

- Albert Einstein

"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question."

- Harun Yahya

"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourists sees what he has come to see."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."

- Mark Twain

"A traveler without observation is a bird without wings."

- Moslih Eddin Saadi

"Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground."

- Judith Thurman

"There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag."

- Jesse Ventura

"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."

- Bill Vaughan

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

- George Orwell

"Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings."

- Diane Garnick

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

- Sydney Harris

"When you see a new year, see realities and limit fantasies!"

- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

"Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical."

- Yogi Berra

"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball."

- Jacques Barzun

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness"

- Mark Twain

"We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us."

- Anonymous

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."

"It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see."

"I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are."

"Numbers may not lie, but they can sure mislead."

"In accounting and in life, the details matter just as much as the big picture."