Quotes About Self-awareness

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are, and not another. You are free to be that man, but not free to be another.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.

Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.

Follow what you love! Don't deign to ask what "they" are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change.

The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.

Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end, but a unique event in itself.

Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

The driver knows how much the ox can carry, and keeps the ox from being overloaded. You know your way and your state of mind. Do not carry too much.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.