Quotes About Self-awareness

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

Ruin and recovery are both from within.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the Kingdom of Heaven, rather than without.

There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.

Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.

You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves; don't accuse the sun of partiality.

Somebody's boring me; I think it's me.

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself, and no one else, has made it.

Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

For birth control I rely on my personality.

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you can't change it, accept it.

The smartest thing I ever said was, "Help Me!"

I was never less alone than when by myself.,

One can acquire everything in solitude but character.