Awareness

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

Sidonie Gabrielle Collette

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.

Confucius

Don't let yourself be controlled by three things: people, money, or past experience.

No author

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman

Be completely aware of your pain, but don't allow it to define who you are. Pain is an emotion that passes.

Sylvester McNutt

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.

Zeno of Citium

The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.

James E. Faust

Every man is pent up within the limits of his own consciousness, and cannot directly get beyond those limits any more than he can get beyond his own skin; so external aid is not of much use to him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Oscar Wilde

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.

Andre Gide

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

Aeschylus

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Andre Gide

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

Bill Cosby

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

Anton Chekhov

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Carl Jung

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln