Awareness Quotes

"Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions."

- Albert Einstein

"When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat."

- George Carlin

"Most of the time, I have absolutely no idea what the hell I’m doing in life, and I’m learning that’s okay."

- Andrea Davis

"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America."

- Otto von Bismarck

"Ignore those who tell you which way to go without first understanding where you are."

- James Pierce

"Life will never conform to all of our desires. Ever."

- Mark Manson

"Don’t hope for a life without problems. There’s no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems."

- Mark Manson

"You really don’t want to be famous. Read the biography of any famous person."

- Kevin Kelly

"Pleasure is not happiness. Pleasure is what’s marketed to us. It’s what we fixate on. It’s what we use to numb and distract ourselves."

- Mark Manson

"Chances are you’re starting to give too many fucks about too many unnecessary things."

- Mark Manson

"There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing."

- Maya Angelou

"Attachment leads to suffering."

- Buddha

"Mainstream news is mental programming."

- Preethi Kasireddy

"Before following the crowd, ask yourself if their average result is acceptable to you."

- James Pierce

"If you want to find your direction in life, remove your misdirection."

- James Pierce

"Haters are people terrified of their own emptiness. Critics are people who want to be those who they criticize."

- Paulo Coelho

"Your actions are a consequence of your thoughts. Your thoughts are a consequence of what you consume. And in the modern age, what you consume is largely a consequence of how you select and refine your social media feed. Choose better inputs. Get better outputs."

- James Clear

"You don’t live on earth, you are passing through."

- Rumi

"If every day were Earth Day we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it."

- Barack Obama

"You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you."

- Vandana Shiva

"Ignore people who don’t respect you. Ignore news that don’t impact you. Ignore food that doesn’t feed you. Ignore all politics. Ignore unnecessary competitions. Ignore emotions that mislead you. Ignore thoughts that won’t help you."

- @orangebook

"What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?"

- Henry David Thoreau

"We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do."

- Barbara Ward

"If every day were #EarthDay we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"The total effect of the environmental crisis cannot be evaluated because it is spread throughout the whole social structure."

- René Dubos

"The good Earth—we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"The whole world is, to me, very much 'alive'—all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can’t look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life—the things going on-within them."

- Ansel Adams

"Be careful with your words; they can be forgiven, but not forgotten."

"Don't compare your chapter one to someone else's chapter twenty."

- Unknown