Quotes About Self-awareness

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.

On the spiritual path we must become a gentle warrior--curious, kind, and alert to our own con games--whispering to ourselves, wake up.

If we succumb to fear, we start holding back, and do that all-to-common dance of getting close, then pulling away. When we remember that our safe harbor depends on our awareness and honesty, we're less likely to make internal compromises, put on masks, or act like a chameleon to attract a partner or keep a hurtful relationship together. If we live by truth, we may have pain, but we will always rest securely in ourselves.

More than anything else, I want myself. I want to live with integrity and truth. I'm not going to hide the jewel of who I am, nor will I mask my imperfections. No bargains, no avoiding reality, no conning myself, no lies.

there is a circular relationship between our ability to know and love another and our ability to know and love ourselves.

our power to conduct our relations with other people depends upon our power of conducting our relations with ourselves. Every

No, I am not sorry for having offended him. I don't mind him; but Ailie, how little one knows! All the angry and bitter feelings that I thought burnt out for ever when I lay waiting for death, are stirred up as hotly as they were long ago. The old self is here as strong as ever!

It is time we reverted to the teaching of Socrates. 'Know thyself,' exhorted the wise man, in season and out of season; and it will be well with us when we understand that to acquaint a child with himself––what he is as a human being––is a great part of education.

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.

I am a special snowflake. Just like all the other special snowflakes. Does it ever seem like there are more super heroes than there used to be?

Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.

I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.

Feelings are the lights on the dashboard of life!

Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

You cannot love or hate another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.

Listen with your heart, listen to your inner voice of wisdom, listen to your dreams. You know what is right for you.

He was a man whose calmness reflected his confidence that he meant whatever he did-- which is different... from confidence that whatever he did was right.

When I was finally totally secure with myself -- aware of my own strength, and making my own way -- I was of the right mindset to love and be loved in a balanced and harmonious way.

But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.

Hello, fear. Thank you for being here. You're my indication that I'm doing what I need to do.

If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don't have to take it in. You don't have to turn it into a big psychodrama about your worth. That behavior so often is not even about you. It's about the person who's being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird. If this were summed up on a bumper sticker, it would say: Don't own other people's crap. The world would be a better place if we all did that.