Quotes About Self-awareness

How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then

How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do";

They don't know what they want in a partner. They don't know who they are themselves—so how can they know who they're marrying?

Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks. Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

He wrote bite-sized philosophies about living with death's shadow: "Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do"; "Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it"; "Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others"; "Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest sports car, you don't need the biggest house. "The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?" What? "Offering others what you have to give." You

Francisco Presto: How do you know you are in love, Maestro? El Maestro: If you are asking, you are not.

The stories we tell yourselves long enough become our truths

Did you ever hear a sermon that felt as if it were being screamed into your ear alone? When that happens, it usually has more to do with you than the preacher.

Embrace aging. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

Man rarely knows his own power, the old man said.

Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue

Did you know... that a dog will go to a crying human before a smiling one? Dogs get sad when people around them get sad. They're created that way. It's called empathy. Humans have it, too. But it gets blocked by other things-- ego, self-pity, thinking your own pain must be tended to first.

Man rarely knows his own power

Accept what you are to do and what you are not able to do

He kept the outside world at bay by keeping the inside world at hand.

We don't realize who else we punish while we're punishing ourselves.

Memendam amarah adalah racun. Ia menggerogotimu dari dalam.

I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.

I'm best in small doses, believe me.

I feel the illusion I've twirled around me like a sari start to come undone and fall to my feet.

But even talented people, sooner or later, cracked their heads against their own personal ceilings.

We are all blockheads.