Awareness Quotes

"The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color."

- Elston Howard

"Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter."

- Francis Chan

""Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.""

- E.M. Bounds

""The little estimate we put on prayer is evident from the little time we give to it.""

- E.M. Bounds

""The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.""

- John Ortberg

"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music."

- Angela Monet

"You don’t have to know about ballet to enjoy it, all you have to do is look at it."

- Edwin Denby

"Movement without meaning is just exercise."

- Marie Brooks

"You can’t see a painter or a writer or a musician if you just look at them, but you can see a dancer in a child if they’ve studied ballet for a year."

- The Dancer and the Dance

"The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words."

- Bill Irwin

"Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are."

- Doris Humphrey

"Understand this and be free: we are not in our bodies; our bodies are inside us."

- Sean A. Mulvihill

"It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it."

- Hans Selye

"Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there,’ or being in the present but wanting to be in the future."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started."

- David Allen

"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work."

- John Lubbock

"Stress is the trash of modern life—we all generate it, but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life."

- Danzae Pace

"Worrying is like a rocking chair; it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere."

- Glenn Turner

"Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."

- Charles H. Spurgeon

"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it."

- Kahlil Gibran

"You cannot perceive beauty, but with a serene mind."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows. It empties today of its strength."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be."

- Wayne W. Dyer

"The body is a vessel. Understand this and be free: We are not in our bodies; our bodies are inside us."

- Sean A. Mulvihill

"Be patient. Life will offer you another chance as soon as you find calm within, for abundance is born out of calmness."

- Leon Brown

"Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe."

- Mark Twain

"Remember that stress doesn’t come from what’s going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what’s going on in your life."

- Andrew J. Bernstein

"If the problem can be solved, why worry? If the problem cannot be solved, worrying will do you no good."

- Shantideva

"Tuesday: The day after Monday that reminds you there’s still four days to not try and slap a fellow co-worker."

- Unknown

"Not everything that weighs you down is yours to carry."