Quotes About Self-awareness

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

The universe, it balances. It makes sure you don't get a head that's too big. I love it.

A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.

I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe.

A couple of people I knew went to university apart from me, but all the way through I was the smartest kid in the school. That's luck, but I was proud of it. And I was also proud of doing well without trying. As you get older, and it took me a long time to realise it, that's a disgusting attitude, revolting.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

People remain unknowable to us, even people that we're very close to. And I think the same goes for our own selves.

It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.

It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.

Saying 'I'm wrong' is meaningless unless it comes from our heart, not just our lips. That often requires a genuine and profound change within ourselves, because we need to realize it's simply human nature and that everyone makes mistakes.

Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.

I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.

Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.

We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.