Quotes About Self-awareness

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

We were young, she continued, while she had a bad heart. Did we not want to earn our tips, she asked us and, cowed, we refrained from introducing the subject again. Her bad heart, I noticed, did not force her to abstain from smoking, or from eating large portions of puddings. Every time I heard her opening how she could not carry anything heavy, I thought sourly "except yourself".

I don't make mistakes. I make predictions which immediately turn out to be wrong.

The classical Greek philosopher Socrates (c.470–399BC) famously said, "The unexamined life is not worth living.

You can never get away from your own self.

Our wives are like mirrors, reflecting back to us what kinds of husbands we are.

Size isn't important', he quipped. I have never adhered to this view. As far as I'm concerned, people who say size isn't important, aren't big enough to admit that they're wrong

I'm remembering something else, too. That remark you made to me about Shakespeare. I asked the woman at the library about Othello, and she got me a copy. He was just about as stupid as me. But with me, I didn't have someone egging me on. I did it to myself. Looking for a treasure when I already had one.

It's the opposite of people who live waiting for life to come to them. Then you're just a victim or you're a lottery winner, so I choose to live life with a plan or a goal. I lay out the steps to get there and then assess them constantly. But usually I only get a clear snapshot of my plan when I look in the rearview mirror and see what I did." - Beachbody CEO Carl Daikeler Excerpt From: Tony Horton. "The Big Picture: 11 Laws That Will Change Your Life.

This is why, Joe, this is why I shouldn't be left alone.

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

I am not . . . . . . my life story, the mind, the body, feelings, experiences of pain or pleasure, struggle, success or failure. I am not loneliness, stillness, frustration or compassion. I am not even what I think is my purpose, the seeking, the finding, or anything which is called a spiritual experience.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

What's the alternative to being right? Maybe it is being well. Not trying to control others, but practicing self-control and self-containment.

Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I'm sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.

Listen—when you're on the toilet, from the point of view of the toilet, you are not an icon taking a crap. You are a bottom taking a crap. If you can get that, you're going to be okay.

This is not your standard rock star's I-was-born-a-poor-genius self-deification, nor is it the opposite

I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.

That's the worst thing about grownups, I think – they can never admit that just once in their lives they've acted wrongly or irresponsibly. They're so quick to judge others, but they never hold Judgement Day for themselves.

The main thing in life is to know your own mind.

Wise as she was, she realized that people can postpone their rebellious phases until they're eighty-five years old, and she decided to keep an eye on herself.