Awareness Quotes

"Beauty does not reserve itself for special elite moments or instances; it does not wait for perfection but is present already secretly in everything."

- John O'Donohue

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our sense to grow sharper."

- W.B. Yeats, Bertrand Russell and Eden Philpotts

"If you’re not watchful, the wonderful is made mundane. But on a good day the mundane can be made miraculous."

- Ella Frances Sanders

"The little things? The little moments? They aren't little."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Our sense of enchantment is not triggered only by the grand things; the sublime is not hiding in distant landscapes. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time. It is transformed by our deliberate attention."

- Katherine May

"There are flowers everywhere for those who want to see them."

- Henri Matisse

"Don’t hunt for diamonds. Get fascinated by pebbles. The world is already more interesting than anyone can possibly imagine. You just need to pay attention."

- Russell Davies

"Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow, or a communicated sense of fineness."

- D. H. Lawrence

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew."

- Pocahontas

"We’re a world of orphans because people couldn’t stop fighting over a gem."

- Raya

"January is the calendar’s Janus, looking both backward and forward with hope and anticipation."

- Bernard Kelvin Clive

"There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rule book that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it."

- Jodi Picoult

"Defense tells you if you won or not, offense tells you by how much."

- Danny Hurley

"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."

- Barry Switzer

"If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed."

- Terrell Owens

"It's real life. And in real life, you can't always win."

- Gerald Johanssen

"Get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted"

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

"When you’re born, you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat."

- George Carlin

"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."

- Ella Maillart

"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"

- Emily Dickinson

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."

- Dale Carnegie

"An inordinate fondness for beetles."

- J.B.S. Haldane

"You can't really control how life is going to look. You just know how you want to feel."

- Jenna Dewan

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."

- Rachel Louise Carson

"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer."

- Radhanath Swami

"Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems to be trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has."

- John Lubbock

"Everyone has beauty, but not everyone sees it."