#aware

I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace. ↗

— Criss Jami

#content #contentment #eating #enjoyment #faith

Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights. ↗

— Carson Kressley

#age #aware #color #concerned #different

I'm aware of what's missing from my life. ↗

— Ang Lee

#i #life #missing #my life

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#aware #even #ever #i #i write

I'm aware of my body. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#body #i

Parents will purchase the dot-com name for their baby. We have been aware of some instances where somebody didn't name their child a particular name because the dot-com wasn't available. ↗

— Bob Parsons

#aware #baby #because #been #child

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious? ↗

— Henry Reed

#being #conscious #do you know #how #know

It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness. ↗

— Henry Reed

#awareness #away #chance #choose #difference

I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly. ↗

— Eric Wilson

#aware #because #childhood #childhoods #children

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#bored #happiness #himself #independent #life