Awareness Quotes

"By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires."

- Tom Robbins

"Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity, and a willingness to embrace paradox rather than choose up sides."

- Tony Schwartz

"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."

- Socrates

"A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven’t. Most don’t mention it. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she’ll know."

- Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

"I felt lost and alone and I felt like I failed because I didn’t know how common miscarriages were because we don’t talk about it. We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we’re broken… I think it’s the worst thing we do to each other as women — not share the truth about our bodies and how they work, and how they don’t work."

- Michelle Obama

"A miscarriage is not a failure, because a failure implies that it’s something you can control. Miscarriages are beyond our control."

- Dr. Simone Whitmore

"It’s amazing how much people hide it. They feel like, ‘What did I do wrong?’ But in so many cases you didn’t do anything at all."

- Giuliana Rancic

"In football [soccer], the worst blindness is only seeing the ball."

- Nelson Falcão Rodrigues

"I once cried because I had no shoes to play football with my friends, but one day I saw a man who had no feet, and I realized how rich I am."

- Zinedine Zidane

"I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet."

- Zinedine Zidane

"Life is like a thunderstorm. It's unpredictable, uncontrollable, sometimes even dangerous. We like to think we have a handle on life, that we're in charge. Then, without warning... we find out how wrong we really are."

- Spider-Man: The Animated Series

"You're saying "Tea," "Tea"!"

- Pavitr Prabhakar

"If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"It’s a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we’re living through is yet another moment, in yet another day."

- Steve Yarbrough

"Mistakes happen, and they happen to the best of us."

- Max Verstappen

"We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them."

- Lillian Hellman

"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes."

- Antisthenes

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people…This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Food is not just eating energy. It’s an experience."

- Guy Fieri

"Dreams vary from person to person."

- The_drunken_monk

"The best thing is to look natural, but it takes a lot of makeup to look natural."

- Calvin Klein

"So many things become beautiful when you really look."

- Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

"There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion."

- Audrey Hepburn

"The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering."

- Audrey Hepburn

"There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Beauty can cause disappointment, for if there is no substance beneath, the image becomes nothing but an empty picture."

"Rarely is anything in life black and white. Parenting, like all things, is filled with shades of grey."

"Try being informed instead of just opinionated."

"People show their true colors unintentionally. Pay attention."

"Life is too short to eat bad food."