Awareness Quotes

"With the imposition of colonization, Christianity, residential schools and ‘the Sixties Scoop,’ a lot of those [Indigenous] teachings of gender diversity have been lost..."

- Dr. James Makokis

"The things we know about residential school — about segregating girls and boys, naming things so clearly as girls and boys, and nothing in between — that is a fracturing of a worldview."

- Jennifer Lafontaine

"There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties. The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery."

- Charles Darwin

"You cannot share your life in a meaningful way with any animals such as a dog, cat, rabbit, bird, rat, pig, horse and so many more and not know that we are not the only sentient and sapient beings on the planet."

- Jane Goodall

"Animals are like people because people are animals."

- Barbara T. Gates

"There is no doubt that plants and animals have minds, emotions, feelings, and survival instincts. This means that we must also consider a new heaven for these creatures."

- Mwanandeke Kindembo

"A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart."

- Buddha

"Counting calories is not the answer, because eating is not the problem."

- Dr. Anita Johnston

"Our disease involved much more than just using drugs, so our recovery must involve much more than simple abstinence."

- Narcotics Anonymous Fellowship

"It’s hard to spot a spiritual crisis: Usually it is disguised as a crisis in our relationships, finances, career, or family."

- Narcotics Anonymous

"Social acceptability does not equal recovery."

- Narcotics Anonymous

"You have to make peace with food. You have to learn, and program your brain to understand: your body needs food."

- Callie Bowld

"If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies, how very different our ideals of beauty would be."

- Lauren Jauregui

"You have to make peace with food. You have to learn and program your brain to understand: your body needs food."

- Callie Bowld

"Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices."

- Demi Lovato

"When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself."

- Bob Marley

"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world."

- Carl Sagan

"Most addicts I have talked to report a similar experience. They did not start using drugs for any reason they can remember. They just drifted along until they got hooked. If you have never been addicted, you can have no clear idea what it means to need junk with the addict’s special need. You don’t decide to be an addict. One morning you wake up sick and you’re an addict."

- William S. Burroughs, writer

"No one is as dumb as all of us together. A camel is a horse built by committee."

- SadMacaroon9897

"It doesn't matter how much you spend on expensive food. Always turned into shit."

- Arsenic_Cadmium

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

- John F. Kennedy

"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

- John F. Kennedy

"The drug war is a total scam, prescription drugs kill 300K a year, while marijuana kills no one, but they spend billions/year 'fighting' it, because pot heads make for good little slaves to put into private prisons, owned by the banks who launder the drug money, and it's ALL DOCUMENTED."

- Alex E. Jones

"I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, un-available to us without such drugs."

- Lester Grinspoon

"Your ability to feel so much — when it’s easier to be numb — is a gift."

"Sadness and disappointment are human; it’s how we respond to the feelings that matter most."

"Even if you can’t see any reason to keep on going, then it doesn’t mean that there aren’t any. It just means that in that moment, your depression is telling you even more lies than usual."

"No food will ever hurt you as much as your eating disorder will."

"Addiction is the disease that makes you too selfish to see the havoc you created or care about the people whose lives you have shattered."

- Anonymous

"Our minds distort our mirrors."