Quotes About Self-awareness

He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing

we're allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us

What is I? It's what you are, not what others make of you.

Everyone is indeed crazy but the craziest are those who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent and self confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. Please don't let that happen to you.

These seeds will always be tulips, even if at the moment you cannot tell them apart from other flowers. They will never turn into roses or sunflowers, no matter how much they might desire to. And if they try to deny their own existence, they will live life bitter and die.

Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.

Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.

Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.

but this loneliness exists and eats away at the best parts of us because we must use all our energy to appear happy, even though we will never be able to deceive ourselves.

Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge. If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not do is forget it. Whoever doubteth not himself is unworthy-- for in his unquestioning belief in his ability, he commiteth the sin of pride. Blessed are they who go through moments of indecision.

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up to them. I also learned to forgive myself and correct my mistakes

Difficulty is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.

The great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the master of the things that try to enslave us.

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps...