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| The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. | Lionel Trilling | 1905-1975, American Critic |
| The great AWARENESS comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. | M. Scott Peck | American Psychiatrist, Author |
| America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no AWARENESS. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile. | Jan Van Ruysbroeck | |
| The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our AWARENESS. | Pir Vilayat Khan | 1916-, Western Philosopher Teacher, Master, Author |
| One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven. | Pir Vilayat Khan | 1916-, Western Philosopher Teacher, Master, Author |
| I felt compelled to perform -- to do my engagements and not let people down. And they supported me, although they weren't aware how much it carried me through. | Princess of Wales Diana | 1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales |
| What is necessary to change a person is to change his AWARENESS of himself. | Abraham H. Maslow | 1908-1970, American Psychologist |
| Problems cannot be solved at the same level of AWARENESS that created them. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion. | Anatol Rapoport | |
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| To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize. | Andre Breton | 1989-1966, French Surrealist |
| People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly | Andy Warhol | 1930-, American Artist, Filmmaker |
| What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgement, AWARENESS. | Ayn Rand | 1905-1982, Russian Writer, Philosopher |
| On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual AWARENESS will protect you from the greatest fear. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual AWARENESS, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. | Carson Mccullers | 1917-1967, American Author |
| I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. | Claude Levi-Strauss | 1908-, French Anthropologist |
| Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension. | Dan Wakefield | |
| To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware. | David Byrne | |
| The worst thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- and never knowing. | David Viscott | American Author, Speaker, Trainer |
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| The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. | Desiderius Erasmus | c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist |
| Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of. | Ellen Goodman | |
| 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 | 1873-1960, American Hostess |
| Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| To become different from what we are, we must have some AWARENESS of what we are. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| It is the AWARENESS of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid AWARENESS of an audience. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity. | Erich Fromm | 1900-1980, American Psychologist |
| The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
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| Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any. | George Santayana | 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet |
| Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change. | Gina Shapira | |
| The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. | Henry Miller | 1891-1980, American Author |
| Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs -- unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times. | Hunter S. Thompson | 1939-, American Journalist |
| 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. | I Ching | 12th Century BC, Chinese Book of Changes |
| The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue. | James A. Froude | 1818-1894, British Historian |
| Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in AWARENESS. | James Thurber | 1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator |
| A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them. | Jean Lush | |
| Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and AWARENESS. | Jim Rohn | American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher |
| Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being ''somebody,'' to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen | John Updike | 1932-, American Novelist, Critic |
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| Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is. | Joseph Wood Krutch | 1893-1970, American Writer, Critic, Naturalist |
| People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too. | Malcolm S. Forbes | 1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman |
| Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. | Marcel Proust | 1871-1922, French Novelist |
| Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless. | Marquis De Vauvenargues | 1715-1747, French Moralist |
| 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 vigour, the mystery, the humour, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance. | Martha Graham | 1894-1991, American Dancer, Teacher, and Choreographer |
| I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them. | Mary Decker Slaney | American Track Athlete |
| Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. | Mary Jean Iron | |
| 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. | Norman Cousins | 1915-1990, American Editor, Humanitarian, Author |
| Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. | Oliver Herford | 1863-1935, American Author, Illustrator |
| Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of AWARENESS of oneness with God. | Peace Pilgrim | 1908-1981, American Peace Activist |
