Quotes About Self-awareness

Some people make their own problems. And they never stop hurting themselves and messing up the people around them. When that's the case, then you shouldn't keep hurting yourself for them.

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.

Book your life choices in advance the same way you would book flights, car rentals, hotels, and excursions. Figure out early on in your career whether you intend to be financially independent or marry a rich man, join the ranks of the professional elite or be the stay-at- home type, postpone having children or find part-time employment. Then fasten your seat belt and sit tight as you watch your trajectory veer off course.

Are you thinking about what you're thinking about?

Work each day on your thoughts rather than concentrating on your behavior. It is your thinking that creates the feelings that you have and ultimately your actions as well.

I would say a few words in your ear. A doubtful man has little faith. Live a long time and it gets dark, and suddenly you know you don't know yourself. But I'd say them even so. Since my eyes repeat what they take in: your beauty, your name, the river's sound, the woods, the soul on its own.

We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.

Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own.

Our decisions define our lives. We are the people we choose to be in the ways that most matter. Choose wisely. You will live with the choices you make. The choices you make define your character. And your character defines how you feel about yourself. That image of you is projected in hundreds of ways to others.

Normally we are so identified with our thoughts and emotions, that we are them. We are the happiness, we are the anger, we are the fear. We have to learn to step back and know our thoughts and emotions are just thoughts and emotions. They're just mental states.

We've all had judgement lapses that had us tiptoeing toward our own personal apocalypse.'

If you were money, would you hang out with you?

The only real asset you have is your time. The hours of your life.

Tout le mal vient de ce que l'on pense, ou plutôt de ce qu'il y a en vous un être qui pense à votre insu puis tout à coup émet dans le silence du cerveau un petite phrase acide, insupportable, après laquelle on ne peut plus vivre comme auparavant

I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a "beat" attitude.

It takes just a litte attitudinal slip to show a big pride.

Don't Polish Balls, Polish your Attitude

The proper conceptual view is attained only through introspection.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.

I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.