Awareness Quotes

"Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong."

- Lillian Wald

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."

- Rebecca West

"It appears to me to be no more divine nor more sacred than other diseases, but has a natural cause 3 like other affections. Men regard its nature and cause as divine from ignorance."

- Hippocrates

"Ive had a bunch of seizures, yall just never hear about them."

- Lil Wayne

"Epilepsy is something nobody knows much about. Its just part of me, part of my head, part of whats happening in there. Sometimes something in my brain triggers it off."

- Neil Young

"There is such a stigma attached to epilepsy and seizures in general. When in fact it is like any other condition and if everyone is educated and free to talk about it then its not scary."

- Greg Grunberg

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

- John F. Kennedy

"Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."

- Flannery O'Connor

"The bowling alley is the poor man’s country club."

- Sanford Hansell

"One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball."

- Don Carter

"I'd rather bowl than play baseball because in bowling, you don't have to worry about getting hit in the head."

- Dick Weber

"If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the bowling alley, then you ARE the sucker"

- Rounders (Paraphrased)

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."

- Steve Jobs

"If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right"

- Steve Jobs

"One sign you haven’t done enough reading is if you find yourself agreeing with whatever book you read last. At first, it’s easy to be swayed by any reasonable argument. Once you’ve read a lot, you can see that even the best arguments have limitations."

- James Clear

"it might threaten one of your more cherished beliefs. In your wisdom you will probably live to be a ripe old age. But you may discover, just before you die, that you have been dead for a long, long time."

- Colin Fletcher

"You don’t have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it."

- Annie Dillard

"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story."

- Linda Hogan

"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."

- William Hazlitt

"Summer on the high plateau can be delectable as honey; it can also be a roaring scourge. To those who love the place, both are good, since both are part of its essential nature. And it is to know its essential nature that I am seeking here. To know, that is, with the knowledge that is a process of living. This is not done easily nor in an hour. It is a tale too slow for the impatience of our age, not of immediate enough import for its desperate problems. Yet it has its own rare value. It is, for one thing, a corrective of glib assessment: one never quite knows the mountain, nor oneself in relation to it. However often I walk on them, these hills hold astonishment for me. There is no getting accustomed to them."

- Nan Shepherd

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous."

- Aristotle

"If you expect life to be fair, you will be sadly disappointed."

- J.F. Kennedy

"Every soul will taste death, and you will only be given your [full] compensation on the Day of Resurrection. So he who is drawn away from the Fire and admitted to Paradise has attained [his desire]. And what is the life of this world except the enjoyment of delusion."

- Ayat 185

"When we are learning the world, we know things we cannot say how we know. When we are relearning the world in the aftermath of a loss, we feel things we had almost forgotten, old things, beneath the seat of reason."

- Meghan O'Rourke

"And all of them are coming to Him on the Day of Resurrection alone."

- Quran

"Love is being able to view a situation without adding duality to it."

- Alaric Hutchinson

"So have they not traveled through the earth and have hearts by which to reason and ears by which to hear? For indeed, it is not eyes that are blinded, but blinded are the hearts which are within the breasts"

- Quran

"But those who disbelieve say, “The Hour will not come to us.” Say, “Yes, by my Lord, it will surely come to you. [ Allah is] the Knower of the unseen.” Not absent from Him is an atom’s weight within the heavens or within the earth or [what is] smaller than that or greater, except that it is in a clear register"

- Quran

"If We had sent down this Qur’an upon a mountain, you would have seen it humbled and coming apart from fear of Allah . And these examples We present to the people that perhaps they will give thought."

- Quran

"O you who have believed, let not your wealth and your children divert you from remembrance of Allah . And whoever does that – then those are the losers."

- Quran