Awareness Quotes

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present."

- Inspectah Deck (Wu-Tang Clan)

"Don’t believe everything you hear. Real eyes, realize, real lies."

- 2Pac

"Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices."

- Juice WRLD

"People never change, they just get better at hiding who they really are."

- Kanye West

"You could name practically any problem in the hood and there’d be a rap song for you."

- Nas

"Sometimes I wonder if my jokes are funny, or everyone’s just scared of me."

- Snoop Dogg

"Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain."

- Anne Grant

"Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'"

- Marilyn Monroe

"I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself."

- Marilyn Monroe

"We should all start to live before we get too old."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Dogs never bite me - just humans."

- Marilyn Monroe

"The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

- Norman Cousins

"“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”"

- Eva Young

"After all, children are children no matter their background."

- Julie Andrews

"The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"…for me, having been adopted was normal. Knowing I was adopted was as natural as having a belly button. It was just always there."

- Madeleine Melcher

"There are no unwanted children, just unfound families."

- The National Adoption Center

"I learned that you need to be born into a family to be loved by one."

- Lisa Wingate

"Too many children in foster care are falling through the cracks. Be a hero, take the time to learn about adoption today."

- Bruce Willis

"We should not be asking who this child belongs to, but who belongs to this child."

- James L. Gritter

"Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters."

- Kailash Satyarthi

"Dear adoptive parents, our lives didn’t start with you."

- Cam Lee Small

""Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.""

- Muhammad Ali

"At first glance it may appear too hard. Look again. Always look again."

"Don’t compare your life to others’, there is no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it is their time."

""Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.""

- Unknown