Quotes About Self-awareness

That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature.

Denying our weaknesses is neither power, nor protection. We cannot overcome those disabling parts of our own nature which in fact steal our power away, if we do not acknowledge they exist.

The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

By nature I'm not a brooder.

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.

In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.

Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

The next great step of mankind is to step into the nature of his own mind.

If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment – how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?

If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Your own shortcomings are the best ground to grow your sense of humor.

It's easy to count other people's mistakes. Make your own if you can.

Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I often bite my tongue and attempt to put the fire out?

Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners

Why does everyone see me as a sink when I am an ocean?

Why?"He stopped pacing and looked at her as if she'd just asked him to count every leaf on every tree in the Old Place. "Because... you're you.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.