Quotes About Self-awareness

If you can't get quiet enough to hear yourself, your life is too loud.

If you're enjoying your anxieties, then for goodness' sake do not go skipping!

the wisdom of spiritual direction is precisely that we refuse to stand between God and the person who so needs to hear God for himself, for herself.

Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.

I can, too, be a bitch sometimes

The Sayings of Confucius: "At fifteen I thought only of study; at thirty I began playing my role; at forty I was sure of myself; at fifty I was conscious of my position in the universe; at sixty I was no longer argumentative; and now at seventy I can follow my heart's desire without violating custom."1

only you really know yourself and only you can really make your decisions.

The whole meaning of my life, which was jammed until midnight with fifteen different jobs and places, was writing. It took me a long time to know that, but I know it now.

Yet of course nationalism is always "imagined"; identity is what you think you are.

Go deep within yourself and be fearless in search of the treasure you are but have momentarily forgotten.

That was my first real experience at feeling set apart. Not only did I not knock them dead, but rather it was I that died...acutely aware of being mutton dressed up as lamb. I exchanged my white tie and tails for a white waiter's jacket and got back to my proper calling!

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

Perfection is my willingness to be less than perfect

You need to own your feelings. Get more comfortable expressing yourself." "How about I express you out the nearest window?

There was still hope. I still had a chance to resurrect myself. I'd just have to do it consciously, every step of the way.

All we can ever know about are the portraits of each other inside our own skulls.

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

I was just an average bloke. It was the media that tried to transform me into a heroic figure. But I've learned through the years, as long as you don't believe all that rubbish about yourself, you can't come to too much harm.' - Sir Edmund Hillary

To destroy something you cannot be is to embrace your darkest heart, to yield to an ungodly desire. It is to be hijacked by what you aren't rather than nourished by what you are. Because what you are is nothing.

If you have to tell people you're important," Evan said, "then you're not important.

You can't be perfect unless you're alone, and then guess what? You're alone. So you're still not perfect.

Every time I consider myself an adult, I think back five years to when I also thought of myself as an adult. An I'm aghast at how staggeringly blind I was. Maybe what I hold to be true right now will seem just as ignorant when I reflect back on it years from now.