Quotes About Self-awareness

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

I'll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.

Self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

You are turning me like someone turning a globe in her hand, and yes, I have another side like a China no one, not even me, has ever seen. So describe to me what's there, say what you are looking at and I will close my eyes so I can see it too, the oxcarts and all the lively flags. I love the sound of your voice like a little saxophone telling me what I could never know unless I dug a hole all the way down through the core of myself.

though they know in their adult hearts, even as they threaten to banish Timmy to bed for his appalling behavior, that their bosses are Big Fatty Stupids, their wives are Dopey Dopeheads and that they themselves are Mr. Sillypants.

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

You are going to be who you are. Might as well embrace it or forever be at the mercy of the human fears and trepidations of life that can devastate and drag us down.

I had been living as if there were no tomorrow, and had nearly made that a reality.

People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't.

The minute you can step outside yourself and look at yourself objectively, is when little voice mastery starts.

You have been conditioned to be what you are. That means that you can also condition yourself to be who you want to be.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion. And yet it is the greatest of our miseries. For it is that above all which prevents us thinking about ourselves and leads is imperceptibly to destruction. But for that we should be bored, and boredom would drive us to seek some more solid means of escape, but diversion passes our time and brings us imperceptibly to our death.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Unless we know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, concupiscence, weakness, wretchedness and unrighteousness, we are truly blind. And if someone knows all this and does not desire to be saved, what can be said of him?

If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.

Man's greatness comes from knowing that he is wretched: a tree does not know it is wretched. Thus it is wretched to know that one is wretched, but there is greatness in knowing one is wretched.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are to yourself. Be humble, impotent reason! Be silent, feeble nature! Learn that man infinitely transcends man, hear from your master your true condition, which is unknown to you.

I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

I have often said that the sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.