Quotes About Self-awareness

Burnout is about resentment. Preventing it is about knowing yourself well enough to know what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

Life is short, so I'm knowing exactly where I'm putting my time. I don't want to do things that I don't have to do.

"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."

Knowing yourself, and learning to love yourself as you are, is the beginning of beauty. I think the most important thing is to show off what's most beautiful about you and to hide what's less beautiful.

Control your anger. If you have anger towards others, they control you.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgement, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

Too many people what they are not and undervalue what they are.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Self-worth is so vital to your happiness if you don't feel good about you, it's hard to feel good about anything else.

When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

If I lost the ability to speak, what would my life be saying?

Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.

I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.

The older I get, the better I was.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.