#consc

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#being busy #busy #consciousness #everyday #happiness

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person. ↗

— Andy Murray

#i #i am #individual #individual sport #person

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#conscience #judgment #matters #often #said

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#along #assuredly #buried #deep #direct

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#associate #belief #conscious #continuance #existence

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles." (Young India, 22 October 1925) ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#conscience #humanity #morality #politics #principles

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts. ↗

— Budd Schulberg

#drive #nuts #stuff #you

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief. ↗

— Charles Olson

#been #belief #country #got #unconscious

Sometimes, people aren't as consciously aware of their decisions as they should be. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#consciously #decisions #people #should #sometimes

You're obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a footballer when I was seven or eight. I didn't just think I wanted to be one, I knew I was going to be one. Nothing ever surprised me really. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#being #brash #conscious #eight #ever