#consciousness

Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life. ↗

— Lucy Grealy

#life #self-consciousness #sharp #torture #life

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#best #consciousness #doing #except #look

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#educational #reading #education

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#consciousness #individual #individual responsibility #mass #responsibility

Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#actually #add #amazingly #biggest #consciousness

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness. ↗

— M. Esther Harding

#being #both #brought #consciousness #feminine

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#consciousness #movement #thought-provoking #art

Aun cuando mi destino externo se haya desenvuelto como sucede para todos, inevitablemente y según lo decretado por los dioses, mi vida íntima es obra propiamente mía, con sus gozos y amarguras, y soy yo, en lo personal, el responsable de la misma. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#consciousness #attitude

After all, it isn't the facts of one's environment, but one's attitude toward them, that determines whether one will be defeated or victorious. ↗

— David Hawkins

#force #power #attitude

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. ↗

— Karl Pearson

#benevolence #consciousness #order #perception #reason