Quotes About Self-awareness

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.

My mother used to say, "He who angers you conquers you."

Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself-an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

To grow and know what one is growing towards-that is the source of all strength and confidence in life.

This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one, instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I've always had such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which we seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm, as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy

If an Arab in the desert were suddenly to discover a spring in his tent, and so would always be able to have water in abundance, how fortunate he would consider himself; so too, when a man who ... is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.

This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

1 am happy and content because I think I am.

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.

A hateful act is the transference to others of the degradation we bear in ourselves.

You don't have to sit on top of a mountain to discover what's right for you. You always know in your heart what you need to do.

The heart knoweth his own bitterness.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.