Awareness Quotes

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. (Abraham Maslow)
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. View quote
Christopher Morley
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. View quote
Albert Einstein
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. View quote
James Thurber
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. View quote
Thomas Merton
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. View quote
Paul Cézanne
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. View quote
Aldo Leopold
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction. View quote
Christopher Lasch
The solution of important problems may be delayed because the requisite tools are not perceived. Or the availability of certain tools may lead to an awareness of problems, important or not, that can be solved with their help. (Tjalling Koopmans)
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. View quote
Norman Cousins
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. View quote
Anthony de Mello
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. View quote
Václav Havel
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance. View quote
Martha Graham
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The infinite vibratory levels, The dimensions of interconnectedness Are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents 
in your awareness. View quote
Alex Grey
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. View quote
Laozi
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates. (Scott Westerfeld)
I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom. View quote
Ayad Akhtar
An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life. View quote
Bernie Siegel
Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood. View quote
Bodhidharma