Awareness Quotes

"I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start with death. We are in eternity now."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."

- Walt Whitman

"It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Your political views really denote your spiritual views."

- Alanis Morissette

"My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs."

- John Frusciante

"Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam."

- Terry Pratchett

"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."

- William Kingdon Clifford

"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by."

- James Matthew Barrie

"It’s real life. And in real life. you can’t always win"

- Gerald Johanssen

"Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got."

- Art Buchwald

"You have got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go by and none of them belong to you."

- Herb Gardner

"The most important thing is you must put everybody on notice that you’re here and you are for real."

- Kobe Bryant

"It’s ok to not be ok, but it’s not ok to stay that way."

- Perry Noble

"Awareness is the first step in healing."

- Dean Ornish

"Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny."

- Frank Outlaw

"What worries you, masters you."

- John Locke

"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall."

- Edward O. Wilson

"Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change."

- Gretchen Rubin

"Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind."

- Matthieu Ricard

"There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens."

- Tommy Lasorda

"There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing."

- Scotty Bowman

"You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel."

- Mike Krzyzewski

"Probably my best quality as a coach is that I ask a lot of challenging questions and let the person come up with the answer."

- Phil Dixon

"Coaches have to watch for what they don’t want to see and listen for what they don’t want to hear."

- John Madden

"The best coaches never tell their athletes that they are wrong. They rather focus on creating awareness."

- Abhishek Ratna

"Learning the mind is as important as understanding the body."

- Usain Bolt

""You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly.""

- Colin Wright

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see."

- Confucius

"Dear granddaughter, you will never be able to make everyone happy. Remember to be yourself and be kind."

"Timing is everything, learn to recognize when the time is right to act."