Quotes About Self-awareness

But we must remember that, in a way, claiming all or too much responsibility is just another form of ego gratification.

Pay attention to unresolved conflicts in your life.

First, by accepting that you choose your attitude, you demonstrate a level of personal accountability and proactivity

If I had a dime for everytime that I was wrong, I'd be broke.

We only know who we are by trying on various versions of ourselves.

4. Next comes a principle that I've discovered in my own life: "Once you do begin to get clarity, wait to act until you have at least a kernel of inner certitude." Wait to

The whole of Chapter Six in the Bhagavad Gita is devoted to Krishna's teachings on this practice: "Whenever the mind wanders, restless and diffuse in its search for satisfaction without, lead it within; train it to rest in the Self," instructs Krishna. "When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.

It is, therefore, a very great thing to be little, which is to say: to be ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.

When you know who you are, you will know how to act.

The rabbits though and thought. "If we're normal and Leo is normal, then normal is whatever you are!

When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.

You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's what they should call you guys, the non-voting generation. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourselves. p.32

A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you'll always be alone.

In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.

You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourself. p.32

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

[N]egative experiences... and separation from our second side cause most of us to reach adulthood as second-hand people.

He said I would think I was getting better at it, being a boyfriend, but that I was going to have to learn not to listen to that kind of bullshit from myself. Just when I thought I'd figured out what made a girlfriend happy, what would make one stay, I would do something wrong again and that would be that.

deep humility. There is nothing the arrogant hate more.

Because the Nazis taught me this: There is a Hitler inside each of us and if we do not heal the Hitler inside of ourselves, then the violence, it will never stop.