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Awareness Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “While she was exchanging the simplest sentences with him, even while she was jesting with him, she was conscious of a faint spasm of dread. So people on a steamer at sea talk and laugh carelessly, for all the world as though they were on dry land; but let only the slightest hitch occur, let the least sign be seen of anything out of the common, and at once on every face there comes out an expression of peculiar alarm, betraying the constant consciousness of constant danger.”

Ivan Turgenev

2. “Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.”

Ivan Turgenev

3. “Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.”

Ivan Turgenev

4. “While a man is living he is not conscious of his own life; it becomes audible to him, like a sound, after the lapse of time.”

Ivan Turgenev

5. “Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.”

Ivan Turgenev

6. “I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.”

Camille Paglia

7. “Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.”

John D. Rockefeller

8. “I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.”

John D. Rockefeller

9. “It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.”

John D. Rockefeller

10. “Remember that you are influencing people who are watching you.”

Guy Kawasaki

11. “If you don’t toot your own horn, don’t complain that there’s no music.”

Guy Kawasaki

12. “Inoculate yourself from dangerous bozos.”

Guy Kawasaki

13. “I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I’m upside down.”

Mitch Hedberg

14. “Not if I know myself at all.”

Charles Lamb

15. “Pain is life – the sharper, the more evidence of life.”

Charles Lamb

16. “Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.”

Charles Lamb

17. “I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.”

Charles Lamb

18. “It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.”

Margaret Fuller

19. “There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.”

Margaret Fuller

20. “The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.”

Margaret Fuller

21. “Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”

Margaret Fuller

22. “Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.”

Margaret Fuller