Awareness Quotes

"You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way."

- Bruno Mars

"Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed."

- Bruce Springsteen

"People don’t get the big picture—animals matter, people matter, and animals in the lives of people matter."

- Noel Fitzpatrick

"Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem."

- A.A. Milne

"You cannot share your life with a dog … or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings."

- Jane Goodall

"Surprised, Eddie? If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn’t be more surprised than I am right now."

- Clark Griswold

"According to the map, we’ve only gone four inches."

- Harry Dunne

"There are only two things I can’t stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch."

- Nigel Powers

"The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?"

- Jeremy Bentham

"We’re not, after all, separate from the animal kingdom. We’re part of it."

- Jane Goodall

"It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer."

- Carl Sagan

"We are not different in any important way. We all have thoughts and feelings. We all feel love, and pain, and loneliness, and joy."

- RZA

"It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions."

- Mark Twain

"Human beings and snakes can both kill you, with one major difference: Human beings will then walk in your funeral, the snakes won't!"

- Mouloud Benzadi

"For humans behaving like animals there will be hunters."

- Tamerlan Kuzgov

"Research has shown that dogs and cats can feel happy or sad, excited or disappointed, depressed or elated, and that these feelings may be similar to ours, even if they cannot express them in the same way that we do."

- Noel Fitzpatrick

"I have depression. I’ve had it for years."

- Dwayne Johnson

"I’ve struggled with depression my whole life."

- Lady Gaga

"I’m not ashamed to say that I’ve struggled with depression."

- Kristen Bell

"Addiction, at its worst, is akin to having Stockholm Syndrome. You’re like a hostage who has developed an irrational affection for your captor. They can abuse you, torture you, even threaten to kill you, and you’ll remain inexplicably and disturbingly loyal."

- Anne Clendening

"Addiction is an adaptation. It’s not you–it’s the cage you live in."

- Johann Hari

"I change when I’m drunk. I’m one of those people who changes…There is something in any person who drinks in a way that’s clearly not good for them, something that is attracted to that chaos."

- Daniel Radcliffe

"The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time… Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers —common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words."

- Stephen King

"I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn’t understand why the happiness never came, couldn’t see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again. And all my efforts were doomed because already drinking hadn’t made me feel good in years."

- Heather King

"At first, addiction is maintained by pleasure, but the intensity of the pleasure gradually diminishes and addiction is then maintained by the avoidance of pain."

- Frank Tallis

"You know that feeling when you meet someone and your heart skips a beat? Yeah, that’s arrhythmia. You can die from that."

- Unknown

"No, RN does not stand for ‘Refreshments and Narcotics.’"

- Unknown

"You can’t fix crazy, all you can do is document it."

- Anonymous

"People who ask me what I’m doing tomorrow probably assume I even know what day of the week it is."

- Anonymous

"The 3 words most people want to hear: ‘I love you.’ The 3 words nurses want to hear: ‘Alert, Oriented, and Ambulatory.”"

- Unknown