- Nathaniel Branden: “The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
- Aristotle: “The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than mere survival.”
- Phil McGraw: “Awareness without action is worthless.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh: “True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self-elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: “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.”
- Anthony de Mello, SJ: “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.”
- Erin Brockovich: “Awareness is key. In the absence of information, none of us know what is happening and what could be jeopardizing our health, our water supply, and our planet.”
- Deepak Chopra: “When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose.”
- Mark Williams: “Pure awareness transcends thinking. It allows you to step outside the chattering negative self-talk and your reactive impulses and emotions. It allows you to look at the world once again with open eyes. And when you do so, a sense of wonder and quiet contentment begins to reappear in your life.”
- James Thurber: “Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
- Anthony de Mello, SJ: “Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh: “Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.”
- David Foster Wallace: “The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
- Rupi Kaur: “It was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself, I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.”
- Sarah Ben Breathnach: “Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.”