Quotes About Self-awareness

You realize that if you are to change your belief about God, you will also have to change your belief about yourself.

Well, I'm stubborn and wrong, but at least I know it.

Gossip can be entertaining—occasionally I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

Self worship is different from self love.

Cel ce seam?n? trec pluguri negre aproape de inim? cel ce seam?n? ?tie c? niciodat? nu voi mai sem?na în aceea?i oglind? atom cu atom arunc?-n brazd? mizeria de a tr?i acum îmi ajunge indiferen?a pentru a fi fericit îmi ajunge blînde?ea pentru a umili tirania înc?p??înatul timp de a fi fix în alte chipuri

And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another.

How do you feel?" Ewa asks. "Betrayed." "By who?" she says. "Whom," I say. "Who?" "I feel betrayed by my femininity.

To be alone with yourself is to be alone. To be in the company of others is to be alone together. The only time you are not alone is when you forget yourself and reach out in love -- the lines of self blur, and just for a wild, flickering moment you experience the miracle of other . And now you know the secret.

You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself. Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure of self. Know that the highest expression of justice is mercy. Thus, as the supreme judge in your own court, you must have compassion for yourself. Otherwise, cede your gavel.

Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

All of man's troubles have arisen from the fact that we do not know what we are and do not agree on what we want to be.

Above all, let's hope we never take ourselves too seriously.

Le succès est peu de choses, auprès d'une conscience en repos.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

The true way of knowing yourself includes neither self-praise nor self-blame, but only a wise silence.

There is great wisdom in asking, "How can I get out of this?" There is even greater wisdom in asking, "How did I get INTO this?

Inner liberation can be described as a condition in which you no longer take either credit or blame for anything.

A self-working individual will be sitting around home one day when the startling thought occurs, "Here I am, sitting around, doing nothing of interest, nothing to hope for, no one to talk with-and I am not depressed.

The intelligent person ignores what to do. He or she concentrates on what to be. We must put first things first. To be clearminded is first. Obviously, that is the only kind of mind that makes accurate and profitable decisions.

To return to the basic idea, you must see that there is a difference between your True Self and your False Self. The True Self is the essential you. It is pure, unconditioned, natural, spiritual. It has nothing to do with ego-competition, pretense, self-deception, pride, vanity, arrogance, and other negativities that keep a man afraid. All such items belong to the False Self.

What a dawning appears to the man or woman who earnestly inquires, 'Who is living my life for me?' Am I really thinking for myself or am I unknowingly projecting acquired ideas which may be all wrong?