Life Awareness Quotes

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

The miracle is not to walk on water, or in the air, or on burning charcoal. The miracle is to walk on earth. You breathe in, you become aware of the fact that you are alive. You are alive and you are walking on this beautiful planet. The greatest of of all miracles is to be alive.

I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain things in your life, and as you get older, you think about your parents getting older.

The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

I want to increase awareness for the importance of life.

...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with...I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves.

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

I was adopted, and so was my mom. And so I just was in tune with how life can be intentional. I feel like maybe that helped me to not feel super entitled to a lot of things as a kid.

EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

When you realize you're alive, you can live life!

You realize you're alive while you're alive, and you better notice it then, because later, it's hard to see.

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.