Quotes About Self-awareness

All change is from the inner to the outer. All change begins in the self-concept. You must become the person you want to be on the inside before you see the appearance of this person on the outside.

Oliver Wendell Holmes has said, "What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The law of correspondence says your outer world is a mirror of your inner world. Your outer world corresponds to your inner world. Your outer world of your relationships—especially with your children and spouse—simply corresponds to how you feel about yourself, how you're doing

The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.

No person or situation can make you fed anything-it is only the way you think about a situation that makes you feel the way you do.

Before you begin work, always ask yourself, "Is this task in the top 20 percent of my activities or in the bottom 80 percent?

You are who you think you are

You cannot say the words "I am responsible!" and still feel angry. The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.

Deep down inside, the average person knows that he or she is put on this earth with amazing capabilities. He or she knows that there is something better than this.

You are a "choosing organism." You are constantly making choices, one way or the other. Every choice you make is a statement about your true values and priorities. At each moment, you choose what is more important or of higher value to you over what is less important or of lesser value.

There is a saying, "There are those who think. There are those who think they think. And then there is the vast majority who would rather die than think.

Las emociones negativas no pueden existir a menos que puedas explicarte a ti y a los demás por qué tienes derecho a sentirte como te sientes con respecto a cierta persona o situación

Galileo once wrote, "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Well, most of the time I do what feels right. But I admit there are times when I give in to my ego. Sometimes the rationalizations are so good that it's easy to sidestep what's right. But eventually you do always realize if you haven't been true to yourself. There's that tiny niggling but persistent voice at the back of your head that is not very easy to ignore for long.

Most of your emotions, positive or negative, are determined by how you talk to yourself on a minute-to-minute basis. It is not what happens to you but the way that you interpret the things that are happening to you that determines how you feel.

Every minute of every day, ask yourself, "What is the most valuable use of my time, right now?" and then discipline yourself to work on only that task until it is complete.

You will have many ups and downs in life, but what is most important is that you remain "true to yourself." Then, as Shakespeare said, "thou can'st not then be false to any man.

What is it in methat is holding me back?

Stop right now and watch your thoughts for a minute. Does this come naturally to you? Have you been practicing observing yourself from a place of compassion? Do you know where your mind tends to go when it is not being managed? I

more importantly, they learn that they are the one in control of their interior experience and how they feel. They learn that discouragement is a feeling caused by a thought—not an inevitable result of working towards something they want. I

But it's often the case that our most intimate enemies are rooted in our own darkness.

T)he downfall of the wise and the mighty comes not from being strong or wise, but from thinking you are stronger and wiser than you truly are, than any being can truly be.

Life is the story you tell yourself. But how you tell that story—are you a hero, victim, lover, warrior, caretaker, believer—matters a great deal. How you adapt that story—how you revise, rethink, and rewrite your personal narrative as things change, lurch, or go wrong in your life—matters even more.

When you find yourself on a vicious cycle, for goodness sakes, stop peddling!" — Swami Beyondananda