"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."

Awareness, Perception, Vision, Focus, Mindfulness

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"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."

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"Oh, to awake from dreaming!"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Awareness, Awakening, Realization, Emotion, Transition

"Beware of your thoughts, for they are not YOU!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Awareness, Thought, Identity, Mind

"Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Awareness, Silence, Sound, Realization, Emotion

"The most astonishing fact of life is that MAN has not only stopped responding to others, but also to HIMSELF!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Awareness, Response, Life, Truth

"We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time."

David Levithan, American Author

Awareness, Language, Silence, Thought, Duality

"I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

Awareness, Emotion, Authenticity, Self, Acceptance

"I will never tell another person, "I don't understand you... and why? Because if I say that, it means that I am disabled in a way. The inability to connect to another's perspective is, I believe, a disability."

C. JoyBell C., American Author

Awareness, Disability, Connection, Understanding, Perspective

"It takes just a little attitudinal slip to show a big pride."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Awareness, Attitude, Pride, Behavior, Mindset

"But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or used to be human once and isn't now, or ought to be human and isn't, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Awareness, Human, Danger, Suspicion

"To cleave wood is a common every-day business, and yet it has its dangers; so then, reader, there are dangers connected with your calling and daily life which it will be well for you to be aware of. Your occupation may be as humble as log splitting, and yet the devil can tempt you in it. Nowhere is he safe who thinks himself so."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Awareness, Danger, Occupation, Temptation, Life

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"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

Metaphor

"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

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"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things."

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"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."

Emotion

"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

Genius

"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."

Friendship

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

Friendship

"Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances."

Humanity

"A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor."

Satire

"The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it."

Creativity