(1828 quotes found)
“When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope”
Henri Nouwen
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
Aristotle
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde
“Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
James Thurber
“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”
Emily Post
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.”
“To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.”
Dalai Lama
“Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength”
Lao Tzu
“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
Jane Austen
