#aware

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person. ↗

— Seth Godin

#being #fear #mark #overcoming #person

Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program. ↗

— Adam Gopnik

#humor #mind #puns #self-awareness #speaking

We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#self-awareness #life

You're surrounded by people and voices and noises, but there you are, alone and trembling inside. And you want to be invisible. (thinking) Please, don't notice me. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#depression #life #mental-illness #quotes #sad

Life wants each of us to live on the 'A Team' -       Wider, ever more intense Acceptance of good in our lives.       Wider, ever more intense Awareness of good in our lives.       Wider, ever more intense Action for good in our lives. www.upwardjoy.com ↗

— Laura Teresa Marquez

#action #awareness #good #goodness #intensity

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. ↗

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

#awareness #come #contentment #grace #grateful

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#arranged #aware #came #continue #did

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#arranged #aware #came #continue #did

I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet. ↗

— James Larkin

#aware #control #course #development #i

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#before #command #conflict #demonstrated #disturbing