Awareness Quotes

"We tend to think that the future happens later, but we’re creating it in our minds every day."

- Lori Gottlieb

"Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far."

- Jodi Picoult

"My anxiety doesn't come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it."

- Hugh Prather

"Everyone remembers the remark of the old man at the point of death, that his life had been full of troubles—most of which had never happened."

- Winston Churchill

"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important."

- Natalie Goldberg

"Worry in the dark can make it even darker."

- Camron Wright

"I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened."

- Mark Twain

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes everything is an emergency."

- Natalie Goldberg

"Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday."

- Ann Brashares

"Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is an ocean."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Anxiety is when the butterflies in your stomach turn into bees."

- Bridgett Devoue

"The quality of your life is where you live emotionally."

- Tony Robbins

"Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but doesn’t get you anywhere."

- English Proverb

"Stress is the alarm clock that lets you know you’ve attached to something not true for you."

- Byron Katie

"It’s not stress that kills us. It’s our reaction to it."

- Hans Selye

"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."

- Alice Walker

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."

- Alice Walker

"I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'"

- Hannibal Buress

"I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction."

- Jodi Picoult

"We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice."

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

"If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life."

- Eugene H. Peterson

"I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you’re supposed to be to live a more authentic life."

- Laverne Cox

"One is not born a woman, one becomes one."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"Anxiety is a lot like a toddler. It never stops talking, tells you you’re wrong about everything, and wakes you up at 3 am."

"If you feel anxious about an event before it happens, you’ll put yourself through the same mental state twice instead of just once."

"It’s disrepectful, in my opinion, when people talk about anxiety attacks as if they’re just a slight hiccup."

"When thinking about the future, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of anxiety can change the future."

"No, RN does not stand for ‘Refreshments and Narcotics.”"

"Knock knock.  Who’s there? HIPAA.  HIPAA who? I can’t tell you that"