Quotes About Self-awareness

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that really count are the things that happen in you." 

Never build a case against yourself." 

If you don't program yourself, life will program you.

The Book of Life says, "As a man thinketh, so is he, and as he continues to think, so he remains."6 Earl Nightingale asked the question: "What's wrong with men today?" He answered the question by saying, "Men simply don't think!" Not only do we often not think, but even when we do think, we think with the world mind. This is why we must re-think our lives!

Humble people are dignified, not because they believe their behavior can be an effective tool to control others, but because they have made dignity a part of their character.

People pleasers, however, tend to overlook the reality that others are responsible

Ever notice how amused people are when you point out one of their mannerisms or a funny quirk about them? They start laughing and getting happy because they're thinking, "People notice me! I'm relevent!" It's OK to have these instincts, but you have to suppress them a bit. There are 6 billion people here, so it's not all about you. You need to let other people talk for a while and pay attention to their world for a sec.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

I don't think I have feelings like other people do. Sometimes you want me to talk to other people inside. Maybe I don't have real feelings.

You damn your own soul better than I ever could.

Am I turning my back on myself, by getting ahead of myself?

Rather than being guided by images of how to be, people need to attend to how they actually are and to respect this.

The mind knows what it is doing and meets itself.

Our emotions always serve a purpose, like the warning lights on a car dashboard. Ignoring them doesn't make them go away, and often ignoring our feelings only makes the problem worse.

Selfishness isn't characterized by knowing how you feel or what you want; selfishness is when you demand that other people always cater to your feelings, your wants, and your needs.

It is impossible to be spiritually mature when we are emotionally unhealthy.

True humility requires inner strength to face the truth about ourselves and to receive undeserved favor from a loving God who longs to reconcile people to himself and help them grow.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is the first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

Our own faults are those we are the first to detect, and the last to forgive, in others.

It was funny how just when you thought you knew yourself through and through, you stumbled on a new kind of strength, a fresh reserve of power inside you that you never knew you had, and all at once you found yourself burning a little brighter and hotter than you ever had before.

He'd been free his whole life, if only he'd known it.

I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don't need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me.

Alone in his room, he smiled at his secret greatness.