Quotes About Self-awareness

Since the Fall man is separated from himself. Man is complicated, and he tries to bury himself in himself. Therefore, it will take time and it will cost something to discover what the person we are speaking to often has not yet discovered for himself.138

The whole point I am making is that a hard, irreducible sense of our own self-awareness has been progressively denied us by the inroads of science both as a form and as a creator of our society.

I have some anger issues.

In your head, you're the star of an epic movie based on your amazing fucking life. 

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in their understanding of things.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

Once you realize what you really are, you cannot be stopped.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

They got drunk and high on a regular basis, but this is a vestige of youth that you either quit while you're young or you become an addict if you don't die. If you are the Old Guy In The Punk House, move out. You have a substance abuse problem.

When we can trust that it's we who think, feel, and act rather than the ghosts of our parents or well-trained robots, we learn that we can also love, be in relationships, and be in the world without losing ourselves.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.

A fool is twice a fool who tries to conceal it.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.