Top 100 Conscious Quotes
#1. True, they were broken and stammering syllables; but they were human speech. My soul, conscious of new strength, came out of bondage, and was reaching through those broken symbols of speech to all knowledge and all faith.
Helen Keller
#2. Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.
Peter Singer
#3. I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.
Edward Carpenter
#4. They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#5. The discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.
Madeleine L'Engle
#6. The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This has often been the approach of those who call themselves scientists and technologists.
Frank Herbert
#7. Anger is often blocked from conscious awareness and converted into more tolerable or family-authorized feelings, such as hurt or guilt. The person feeling anger no longer feels it; he feels the acceptable feeling.
John Bradshaw
#8. I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find some new close fits from other information stored in my brain.
Arthur Fry
#9. Responsibility is awareness, alertness, consciousness. Ego is just unconsciousness. They cannot coexist. As you grow more conscious you grow more towards light, and anything belonging to the world of darkness starts disappearing. Ego is nothing but darkness.
Rajneesh
#10. When you truly desire change, your conscious mind chooses the positive, new action.
Marshall Sylver
#11. The critic is actually describing a conscious representation of their interaction with the wine, and therefore the score of rating is a property of that interaction and not the wine itself
Jamie Goode
#12. Do your dreams find their way from your sub-conscious self, the part of your brain that's busy while you sleep, to your conscious self? From your night self to your day self? That's the question." She met William's eyes and held on. "Do you know what you want?
Dennis Vickers
#13. I wonder, skeleton, would you still be alive? Would you be conscious if you were dice, or keys on a piano?" "Always wanted a life in music," Skulduggery mumbled.
Derek Landy
#14. It seems that nearly every week there is a problem where information is leaked or computers hacked. I'm conscious of keeping my details as safe as possible. I might be old but I'm still bright and prefer to go into my local branch and see a face.
Geoff Capes
#15. Thinking clearly is a conscious act that writers must force on themselves,
William Zinsser
#16. We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.
Oswald Chambers
#17. The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.
Criss Jami
#18. There are a lot of different beliefs for tightening up your core. I think just being conscious of it and being aware to engage your muscles will help any woman's tummy get in shape.
Brooke Burke
#19. As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you.
James Van Praagh
#20. I will also tell you a secret. We have to will one another: this is the beginning of conscious love.
Maurice Nicoll
#21. Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of a conscious decision. For the most part, female-headed households are the result of short-sighted, self-destructive behavior of one or two people.
Walter E. Williams
#22. I'm also conscious of what this confidence that has been placed in me means. I'm going to the Games through the back door but I'm working everyday to exit through the main door!
Benjamin Boukpeti
#23. each day's life comes with lot of puzzles, mysteries to unravel; being so conscious of life can make one so unconscious of life
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#24. A conscious lifetime ... is a treasure beyond value.
Gary Zukav
#25. Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation.
Shiv Khera
#26. Writing bridges conscious and subconscious mind. It is a psycho-neuromuscular activity and literally imprints the brain.
Stephen Covey
#27. He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I'd find myself thinking of him before I even realized what I was doing. Banishing him from my thoughts was like learning to breathe in a new way. it was a conscious effort.
Mary E. Pearson
#28. Intelligence resides between us as much as it resides in us. And it resides within the subconscious much more than it does the conscious. We're just conscious-biased: our conscious mind wants us to think it's the be all and end all.
James Rozoff
#29. True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.
Eckhart Tolle
#30. If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.
Florence Welch
#31. In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.
Freya Stark
#32. [I'm a conscious parent when I believe] a parent's presence in their child's life is of paramount value and provides the foundation for their sense of worth.
Shefali Tsabary
#33. If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Henry David Thoreau
#34. Each day you're presented with a choice. You can either keep your greatness hidden under a pile of fears, regrets, and excuses, or you can let it out. So the best way to begin unlocking inner greatness is to make a conscious choice to live out the rest of today, with the best you.
Lewis Howes
#35. Only when you have a conscious working knowledge of these (Universal)laws are you able to be the Deliberate Creator of your own life experience,
Esther Hicks
#36. Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't make any sense that the whole point of enlightenment would be to escape from the whole process at the very instant that the universe is beginning to awaken to itself.
Andrew Cohen
#37. The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.
Elie Wiesel
#38. The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy
#39. The mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. Like a rider on the back of an elephant, the conscious reasoning part of the mind has only limited control of what the elephant does.
Jonathan Haidt
#40. This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.
Dorothee Solle
#41. I was, of course, myself the chief sufferer, because I was fully conscious of the disgusting meanness of my spiteful stupidity, and yet at the same time I could not restrain myself.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#42. Be conscious of one another and everything that we are connected to in this world of ours (not just your relatives and friends).
Noelle Scaggs
#43. If we want to be compassionate we must be conscious of the words we use. We must both speak and listen from the heart.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#44. We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.
Dion Fortune
#45. In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.
Leo Tolstoy
#46. I am personally optimistic. I share the widespread view that we are entering a new epoch during which we can achieve conscious evolution and the elevation of humanity to a constructive steward of the Earth.
Robert David Steele
#47. Most men get their deepest conviction of self-worth from a woman, wife, mother, or if they are highly conscious, from their own anima. The woman sees and shows the man his value by lighting the lamp.
Robert A. Johnson
#48. Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.
Nhat Hanh
#49. I think I took a few stabs at writing socially conscious lyrics. I had never intended to write a song about the Gulf War, but when I wrote "Before You Hit The Floor," I didn't know what the hell was going on in the world.
Bucky Pope
#50. I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
Samantha Shannon
#51. Never was he conscious that his thoughts were prayers; only that the prayers were never answered.
William Peter Blatty
#52. Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.
Charles Eastman
#53. The excellence of the soul is understanding; for the man who understands is conscious, devoted, and already godlike.
Hermes Trismegistus
#54. I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.
Michelle Williams
#55. There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites - conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it's all the same.
Frank Herbert
#56. We put up a kind of spiritual firewall and make a conscious effort to shut out the headlines, because our (Bible) discussions are meant to be timeless.
John Kasich
#57. The highest vocation of reason and of the will is to seek to know the ultimate source of that mystery. Above all, one should wish to know whether our consciousness of that mystery directs us toward a reality that is, in its turn, conscious of us.
David Bentley Hart
#58. Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.
Duane Elgin
#59. Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it's a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can leads us to error: love is law, but conscious love.
Samael Aun Weor
#60. No doctor can write a prescription for friendship and love: These are complex and hard-earned capacities. You don't need a history of trauma to feel self-conscious and even panicked at a party with strangers - but trauma can turn the whole world into a gathering of aliens.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#61. Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most clearly set in relief what in his vision and in his inquiry is different from the run-of-the-mill.
Martin Heidegger
#62. You are not who you think.
You're not even the thinker.
You are the one conscious of the thought.
Kamand Kojouri
#63. Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate the conscious and subconscious minds. Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought and helps break the whole into parts.
Stephen R. Covey
#65. I closed my eyes and willed my breath to slow, my conscious mind to fold itself inward. I could feel heat pulsing from my daughter's head, her frantic thoughts whirling like broken glass. I loosened my hold on my body and dropped into that whirlpool.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#66. My memories of being nine or ten years old are especially vivid, since this is the time when you have a real sense of who you are - before the self-conscious preteen years start.
Marissa Moss
#67. Success = Dream x Plan x Work
Conscious dreams are essential components of your success. When you are backed up by a convincing dream, meticulous planning, and 100% execution, you are bound to be victorius.
Vishwas Chavan
#68. Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?
Anne Lamott
#69. The conscious mind has the power of choice; the sub-conscious does what it's told to do.
Dr.Joseph Murphy
#70. Many people aren't aware of the teachings of Elijah Muhammad who taught some of our most significant conscious, black thinkers of our times. "He
Zoya
#71. The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it made her unreal; and us solemn, and self-conscious. We were made to act parts that we did not feel; to fumble for words that we did not know. It obscured, it dulled.
Virginia Woolf
#72. The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.
Thalassa Cruso
#73. Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#74. Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of it; for the duration of that moment it is happy. Thus a hog is always happier than a man, and a bacillus is happier than a hog
H.L. Mencken
#75. I was raised vegan. My mom would always make quinoa with squash and kale, hippie stuff like that. Now I eat meat, but I try to be conscious about where it's coming from.
Zoe Kravitz
#76. A room is not just a room. A room is a manifestation of a state of mind, the product of an intelligence. Either conscious ( ... ) or unconscious. We make our rooms, and then our rooms make us.
Will Wiles
#77. She doesn't know what to say. She feels quietly furious with him, while conscious that she has no right to be. What has he ever promised her, after all?
Jojo Moyes
#78. Strangers still leave me self-conscious.
Alan Ladd
#80. The freedom we want, for ourselves and for others, is not an absolute metaphysical, abstract freedom which in practice is inevitably translated into the oppression of the weak; but it is real freedom, possible freedom, which is the conscious community of interests, voluntary solidarity.
Errico Malatesta
#81. Genius ... arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
Mary Hunter Austin
#82. People experience conscious will when they interpret their own thought as the cause of their action.
Daniel Wagner
#83. A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
Neale Donald Walsch
#84. When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#85. Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
Alan Moore
#86. ideas are alive, that ideas do seek the most available human collaborator, that ideas do have a conscious will, that ideas do move from soul to soul, that ideas will always try to seek the swiftest and most efficient conduit to the earth (just as lightning does).
Elizabeth Gilbert
#87. Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.
Greg Egan
#88. When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.
Julia Cameron
#89. The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!
John Dryden
#90. Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their response to the incoming stimuli.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#91. Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
Tariq Ramadan
#92. The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.
Henry David Thoreau
#93. Only a small, supernatural figure remained at the scene of the crime.* He did resolve one mystery while in Salem: indeed the devil needs conscious human collusion to work evil.
Stacy Schiff
#94. There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.
Cindy Gallop
#95. When a goal is badly stated or it does not exist at all, our sub- conscious will automatically conceive it as unreachable, as impossible as to find a solution for something that does not exist
Sunday Adelaja
#96. All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.
Eliphas Levi
#97. To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky
R.S. Thomas
#98. The only reality is "anxiety" in the whole chain of beings. To the man lost in the world and its diversions this anxiety is a brief, fleeting fear. But if that fear becomes conscious of itself, it becomes anguish, the perpetual climate of the lucid man "in whom existence is concentrated.
Albert Camus
#99. I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got.
Erin McKean
#100. Outside everything was uncannily visible in the light of the full moon, but here in the dark shaded alleys the night was conscious of itself. ("The Moon Slave")
Barry Pain
