Quotes About Self-awareness

Nietzsche: "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.

Don't spend...but mend yourself...

It sounds as if you are trapped in a cycle of thinking about yourself and how you don't belong in the world.

Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not now.

Each of us is a God, Buddha had said. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

My body is but a vessel for my most potent treasure … my mind.

Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom. It

Los que luchan contra monstruos deben cuidarse de no acabar convertidos en uno de ellos".

circumstances of life— The events of life— The people around me in life— Do not make me the way I am. They reveal the way I am.

We see things not as they are, but as we are. Because it is the 'I' behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.

We are always telling stories to ourselves, about ourselves...But we can control those stories...I believe that! Events in our life have meaning because we choose to give it to them

Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.

It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.

When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior.

It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you — consciously or unconsciously.

You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen. HENRY DAVID THOREAU

the peaceful warrior's greatest battles don't lie in the external world, but within us. These inner hurdles generate most of the obstacles and difficulties we encounter in daily life. They carry greater danger than outer problems, because they slip, unseen and unnoticed, into our every endeavor.

one way most of us deal with feelings is to ignore them or pretend they don't exist—to deny them. Then, as the pressure builds, we occasionally experience emotional episodes such as arguments or explosions (and we may later berate ourselves for having "lost control").

The ability to express feelings is an important life skill. But forever expressing upset feelings tends to restimulate them.

As you learn to accept your emotions fully, however, without allowing them to drive or limit your behavior, you'll find it less necessary to change or fix them.

Some of us center our lives around other people's feelings; we try to make them happy. But since you can't control your feelings, how can you possibly fix the feelings of others? The plain truth is that feeling responsible for someone else's unhappiness (or happiness) is simply not realistic