Awareness Quotes

"In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen."

- Grover Cleveland

"Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip."

- John Gierach

"Soon after I embraced the sport of angling I became convinced that I should never be able to enjoy it if I had to rely on the cooperation of the fish."

- Sparse Grey Hackle

"Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman."

- Herbert Hoover

"There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot."

- Lefty Kreh

"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: "What good is it?""

- Aldo Leopold

"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."

- Doug Larson

"Fishing is not an escape from life, but often a deeper immersion into it..."

- Harry Middleton

"Many of us probably would be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect."

- Norman Maclean

"There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process."

- Paul O'Neil

"If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world."

- Will Rogers

"I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen."

- Ted Williams

"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death."

- Julie Burchill

"There should be a statute of limitation on grief."

- Jodi Picoult

"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

- Matthew 6:21

"To truly improve the patient experience, we must understand the patient journey from the patient’s perspective."

- Jason A. Wolf, President of The Beryl Institute

"Listening to patients is the cornerstone of patient-centered care."

- Don Berwick, former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."

- Stacia Tauscher

"To take children seriously is to value them for who they are right now rather than adults-in-the-making."

- Alfie Kohn

"Every day, in a 100 small ways, our children ask, ‘Do you hear me? Do you see me? Do I matter?’ Their behavior often reflects our response."

- L.R. Knost

"To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually."

- Eckhart Tolle

"I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am."

- Eckhart Tolle

"To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious."

- Mark Batterson

"Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next."

- Henri Nouwen

"The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are, but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace."

- Philip Yancey

"Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening."

- Walter Scott

"Of course you don’t die. Nobody dies. Death doesn’t exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world."

- Henry Miller

"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"If you're stressed, remember it's just desserts spelled backwards"