Awareness Quotes

"Stress is not the problem. The problem is our reaction to stress."

- Richard Carlson

"Stress is not the enemy. It is a signal that we need to make some changes in our lives."

- Hans Selye

"Stress is not what happens to us, it's how we choose to react to what happens to us."

- Bill Cosby

"So if you think your life is complete confusion ‘Cause your neighbors got it made Just remember that it’s a grand illusion And deep inside, we’re all the same"

- Styx

"Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave."

- Harriet Tubman

"I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater."

- Harriet Tubman

"If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more."

- Harriet Tubman

"I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven."

- Harriet Tubman

"Positive energy is collective, integrative, expansion. Whereas negative energy (...) is simply that which disconnects, which segregates, which separates, which lowers energy, lowers frequency. Whereas Positive increases the frequency and allows us to see things more holistically. Whereas negative energy breaks things into parts that makes things a bit more challenging to manage."

- Darryl Anka

"Negative and positive energy thrives; the different area we channel our energy is the issue and not the energy itself."

- Daniel ANIKOR

"Stress is not caused by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us."

- Kelly McGonigal

"Stress is not caused by what happens to you, but by your thoughts about what happens to you."

- Kelly McGonigal

"Stress is a state of mind. It's up to you to decide how you want to react to it."

- Wayne Dyer

"If there is no word that means you don't have the concept. In North Korea they eliminate the words: depression, stress, dictatorship, human rights. You cannot think of those. That's why all the brainwashing was possible."

- Park Yeon-mi

"No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory."

- Joe Rogan

"A man sees in the world what he sees in his heart."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest."

- Marilyn Ferguson

"There is also this pressure in Hollywood to be ageless. I think what I have been witness to is seeing women trying to stay ageless with what they are doing to themselves. I am grateful to learn from their mistakes, because I am not injecting shit into my face. I see them and my heart breaks. I think, ‘Oh, God, if you only knew how much older you look.’ They’re trying to stop the clock, and all you can see is an insecure person who won’t let themselves just age."

- Jennifer Aniston

"I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is ‘anti.’ Aging is as natural as a baby’s softness and scent. Aging is human evolution in its pure form."

- Jamie Lee Curtis

"There are six myths about old age: 1) that it’s a disease, a disaster. 2) That we are mindless. 3) That we are sexless. 4) That we are useless. 5) That we are powerless. 6) That we are all alike."

- Maggie Kuhn

"It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone."

- Andy Rooney

"The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you’ll grow out of it."

- Doris Day

"How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?"

- Satchel Paige

"At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all."

- Ann Landers

"Old age is always fifteen years older than I am."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"There is nothing more aging than misery."

- Michelle Pfeiffer

"Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book."

- Joe Frazier

"Fenris was a good man and maybe the weakness of being good was that evil didn't occur to you."

- T. Kingfisher

"I always keep a ball in the car. You never know."

- Hakeem Olajuwon

"We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love."