Awareness Quotes

"When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel."

- Denzel Washington

"I frequently hear music in the heart of noise."

- George Gershwin

"Angels are the ethereal beings who send us signs and synchronicities, reminding us that we are on the right path."

- James van Praagh

"They talk like angels but they live like men."

- St. Jerome

"Understanding why people suffer, how they change, and how to help them live satisfying lives is a fascinating and important undertaking."

- Sommers-Flanagan and Sommers-Flanagan

"I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here." "Is there something wrong with that?" "Absolutely."

- Ned Vizzini

"The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain."

- Gabor Maté

"Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone."

- Augusten Burroughs

"If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted."

- Stefan Molyneux

"In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy."

- Johnny Carson

"Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment."

- James Hillman

"Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?""

- Julie Schumacher

"The opposite of illness is not wellness. The opposite of illness is justice."

- @inclusivetherapists

"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."

- Igor Stravinsky

"Art is not only about angst."

- John Corigliano

"There is an unlimited supply of good music in the world. Thus our biggest challenge is to choose wisely what we listen to and what we watch."

- M. Russell Ballard

"Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves."

- Virginia Satir

"It's not that I don't trust Ben. It's that I don't have faith in Ben. And also I'm starting to forget who Ben is."

- Leslie Knope

"What I hear when I’m being yelled at is people caring really loudly at me."

- Leslie Knope

"I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence."

- Robert Cormier

"Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet."

- Ronald Reagan

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."

- Ronald Reagan

"You don’t have to be happy to smile."

- Daniel Willey

"All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile."

- Chris Hart

"You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it’s just teeth."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"I am a preschooler. I am not made to sit still."

- Anonymous

"Fire is a good servant but a bad master."

"A comforting lie protects a painful truth."

"Avoidance is a symptom of anxiety, not a treatment for it."

"Curiosity is the death of shame and criticism"