Quotes About Self-awareness

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy; unless you let him.

It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self

If you know your own mind, you know enough to keep it always positive.

Capacity is Possibility. Study yourself as you would a masterful piece of machinery, for you are the most wonderful Handiwork that has ever been put together. Each day should find you more familiar with your Abilities and Capacity than the day before.

Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind. Thoughts which a man deliberately places in his own mind, and encourages with sympathy, and with which he mixes any one or more of the emotions, constitute the motivating forces, which direct and control his every movement, act, and deed!

Literally speaking, every person with whom you come in contact is a mental looking-glass in which you may see a perfect reflection of your own mental attitude.

The cause of all power, as of all weakness, is within; the secret of all happiness as of all misery is likewise within.

even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.

Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self.

Now I am here - now read me - give me a name.

Shall the squid have praise or blame for being a squid? Shall the bird have compliments for being born with wings?

The are times When you may think that people are staring at you - They are.

There are times When you may think that people are staring at you - They are.

Don Juan said that everybody that knew me had an idea about me, and that I kept feeding the idea with everything I did. "Don't you see?" he asked dramatically. "You must renew your personal history by telling your parents, your relatives, and your friends everything you do. On the other hand, if you have no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with your acts. And above all no one pins you down with their thoughts.

The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue

The indulgence of denying is by far the worst; it forces us to believe we are doing great things, when in effect we are only fixed within ourselves. To

Who was I, anyway, to set myself up in judgment of anyone else?

While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.

Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself.

Someone who lives alone, I thought. You end up becoming what you see in the eyes of those you love.

Books are like mirrors , you only see in them what you already have inside you