Awareness Quotes

"There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in."

- Dick Costolo

"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."

- Charles Swindoll

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

- Grandma Moses

"Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what’s going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along."

- Stephen Colbert

"You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship."

- David Foster Wallace

"When you leave here, don’t forget why you came."

- Adlai E. Stevenson II

"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The summer night is like a perfection of thought."

- Wallace Stevens

"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?”"

- Sydney Harris

"... for such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ."

- 2 Corinthians 11:13

"Reflect on what you do in a day. You may have never realized how some simple, harmless activities rob you of precious time."

- Vivek Naik

"If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves."

- David Allen

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all"

- Oscar Wilde

"Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it."

- Michael J. Fox

"When in doubt, check if your actions are aligned with your purpose."

- Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy

"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."

- Stephen Hawking

"Homo homini lupus"

- Plautus

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

- Oscar Wilde

"Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary."

- Fred Rogers

"Everyone experiences a version of anxiety or worry in their lives, and maybe we go through it in a different or more intense way for longer periods of time, but there’s nothing wrong with you."

- Emma Stone

"Mental health is something that we all need to talk about, and we need to take the stigma away from it. So let’s raise the awareness. Let’s let everybody know it’s OK to have a mental illness and addiction problem."

- Demi Lovato

"We would never tell someone with a broken leg that they should stop wallowing and get it together. We don’t consider taking medication for an ear infection something to be ashamed of. We shouldn’t treat mental health conditions any differently."

- Michelle Obama

"Anyone can be affected, despite their level of success or their place on the food chain. In fact, there is a good chance you know someone who is struggling with it since nearly 20% of American adults face some form of mental illness in their lifetime. So why aren’t we talking about it?"

- Kristen Bell

"I was with someone recently who asked: ‘Well, don’t you think that if you do too much therapy it will take away your artistic process?’ And I told them: ‘The biggest lie that we’ve ever been sold is that we as artists have to stay in pain to create.'"

- Katy Perry

"What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation."

- Glenn Close

"No amount of therapy can or self care can make up for scarcity of food & drink, time, or financial resources."

- Whitney Goodman, LMFT

"There is no cast, no scar, no stitches. No X-ray with the evidence of pain. Rarely is there physical evidence of mental illness, but for those suffering from pervasive mental illness the pain and exhaustion is deep and heavy."

- Emily Sanders, LMFT

"Keep your heart open, and you'll find that good fortune is all around you."

"Humans have tools of happiness but are still unhappy, They have time on hand but no good use of it, They have food but no eradication of hunger, Aren’t these indicators of the beginning of the end of the world?"

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."