Quotes About Self-awareness

Circumstances don't shape us, so much as they reveal us.

Ellos mismos son fabricantes de sí mismos

Circumstance does not make the person, it reveals the person to himself or herself.

His condition is also his own, and not another man's. His suffering and his happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

All things are mirrors in which you see yourself reflected, and the gloom which you perceive in your work is but a reflection of that mental state which you bring to it. Bring a right, an unselfish, state of heart to the

DON'T LEAD A DOUBLE LIFE. Everything you do takes up space in your brain. If you live a double life (and you know what I mean if I'm talking to you), then that extra life takes up neurons and synapses working overtime. The brain can't handle it. It starts to degrade instead of grow.

all I was doing was sweeping everything under my bed. My room would look spotless but it was actually still a disgusting mess. The same thing is true of most people's lives.

Excuses are easy lies we tell ourselves to cover up our failures.

Noticing your reactions to suffering, anger, pain is the key to well-being.

is a beacon. Your honesty—saying no to the lying—is what will bring the lost ships home. It's what will bring health, love, and money to you.

symbolically, nobody can deliver wisdom to you except you. The being who finds peace inside himself needs nobody to tell him what to do, nobody to project their own fantasies onto him.

I realized that I was an amateur. I had spent my life pretending to be something I wasn't.

If someone insists they need to be in prison even though the door is unlocked, then I am not going to argue. They are free to stay in prison.

I don't blame them. I never blame anyone but myself. Every second I am manipulated and coerced and beaten down it's because I've allowed it.

I'm forty-five and I still have no idea what I want to be when I "grow up." But I'm starting to finally accept the fact that all I want to be is ME.

Not everyone is an entrepreneur. Not everyone wants to be one.

Your mind desperately wants to be the BOSS. It needs you to be very, VERY BUSY with BS stuff

Here's an exercise for those who typically wake up anxious and paranoid at three in the morning: instead of counting sheep to get back to sleep, count all the things you are grateful for. Even the negative parts of your life. Figure out why you should be grateful for them. Try to get up to one hundred.

Ninety-nine percent of the people on the street will lick the flavor right off your Life Saver if you let them.

But once you divide the world into categories, into an "us" versus "them," then you immediately become a "them" and lose touch with who you really are. And

Being mediocre doesn't mean you won't change the world. It means being honest with yourself and the people around you. And being honest at every level is really the most effective habit of all if you want to have massive success.

Excuses are easy lies we tell ourselves to cover up our failures. One such excuse is, only dishonest people get ahead. This is also a lie. MAKE

We rob ourselves of our joy and happiness when we stop and check in with what everyone else is thinking and saying about us.

The ability to ignore the instant chatter of the mind and to recognize there is something beyond it. There is wisdom beyond it, from the fountain of silence. This is the only way to choose yourself.