Awareness Quotes

"There is no such thing as a stress-free life. No evidence has ever been presented which suggests that a stress-free life can ever be achieved. Stress can be managed, relieved and lessened, but never eliminated."

- Gudjon Bergmann

"Stress is the trash of modern life–we all generate it, but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life."

- Danzae Pace

"Morning is an important time of day because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have"

- Daniel Handler

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them."

- Aldo Leopold

"It’s human nature not to realize the true value of something, unless they lose it."

- Orochimaru

"Anticipation, anticipation, is making me late, is keepin’ me waiting."

- Carly Simon, “Anticipation”

"Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar."

- John Glenn

"Clutter is the physical manifestation of unmade decisions fueled by procrastination"

- Christina Scalise

"Intimate, necessary details add up to one’s private life. Select them with care because they are your life."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"Clutter is not just the stuff on your floor—it’s anything that stands between you and the life you want to be living."

- Peter Walsh

"We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It’s the disease of the time."

- Cheryl Mendelson

"Everything in our surroundings speak for us, and if we accept living with vulgar design we must pay for it. Carling about aesthetics increases your sensitivity. The more we care about the small details, the more in tune to beauty we become, and the more we realize how seemingly insignificant items affects us."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"There’s memory clutter, which reminds you of an important person, achievement, or event from your past. I think memory clutter often gathers in the homes of people with some degree of depression. And then there’s “I might need it one day clutter, in which people hang on to stuff in anticipation of an imagined future. Among these folks, I’ve noticed a recurring theme of anxiety…Maybe it’s possible that the stuff we own and obsess over is the physical manifestation of the mental health issues that challenge our minds."

- Peter Walsh

"You can tell a great deal about a person by visiting his or her kitchen."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it."

- Malcolm X

"My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master."

- Malcolm X

"The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever."

- Malcolm X

"History proves that the white man is a devil."

- Malcolm X

"When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity."

- Malcolm X

"In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'"

- Malcolm X

"We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party."

- Malcolm X

"When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent."

- Malcolm X

"Life is too short to waste time on things that don't matter."

"Friday is the best time to be alive and live in the truth."

"Every Thursday, my brain thinks about the weekend while my body is stuck at work."

"Cleaning is the outward expression of an inward desire for order."

"Cleaning is the process of making visible what was previously hidden."

"Dust settles everywhere, even in the best-regulated houses."

"One Live."