Awareness Quotes

"Hope is not a strategy."

- August Walker

"What we've got here is failure to communicate."

- Cool Hand Luke (1967)

"I see dead people."

- The Sixth Sense (1999)

"A boy's best friend is his mother."

- Psycho (1960)

"They're here!"

- Poltergeist (1982)

"Soylent Green is people!"

- Soylent Green (1973)

"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."

- Dracula (1931)

"You are not free the day you walk out of prison; you are free the day you walk out of ignorance."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"I love August - it's a gentle month that knows the sun is setting sooner than we'd like."

- Alexandra Ivy

"Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don’t think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year."

- Alice Hoffman

"People always want a reason for the bad things in life; sometimes there ain’t one."

- Stephen King

"It has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone.  And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone."

- Paul Tillich

"A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."

- Susan Sontag

"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure."

- Paulo Coelho

"Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized."

- Margaret Atwood

"Ask any child development expert, and they will tell you that children do not develop in a straight line. There are no average children. There are no standard children."

- Cassi Clausen

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

- Dorothy Parker

"A big reason so many businesses compete on price is because they can’t prove what value they offer, so they’re stuck with the one selling point that’s a breeze to communicate: cheapness."

- Mish Slade

"When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest."

- Stephen King

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Wherever there is light, one can photograph."

- Alfred Stieglitz

"An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior."

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

"As you go through life, you will see that there is so much that we don’t understand. And the only thing we know is things don’t always go the way we plan."

- Simba

"Football is not a contact sport-it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport."

- Duffy Daugherty

"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."

- Indya Moore

"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

- Michel de Montaigne

"Present fears are less than horrible imaginings."

- William Shakespeare

"No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen."

- Alan Watts

"Worrying is praying for something you don’t want."

- Robert Downey Jr.

"Worrying is a waste of imagination."

- Walt Disney