Quotes About Self-awareness

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.

don't worry please please how many times do I have to say it there's no way not to be who you are and where.

night after night after night stay up all night nothing but your own night

In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator.

It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.

Consciousness is part of our nature as sentient beings, but doesn't mean we are aware at a particular moment. By perceiving our consciousness - becoming conscious of consciousness, we become aware.

No matter how much people recognize you, or how popular you are with them, you will be unhappy unless you acknowledge yourself. True recognition does not only come from those around you or the world. It comes when you recognize and love yourself

The life I am experiencing, good or bad, is the collective result of the choices I have made, knowingly or unknowingly. When I accept this, I acknowledge that I have the power to create my destiny.

The ancient teaching of Tao tells us that knowing what you really are is wisdom, and living it is virtue.

Our true nature doesn't need any explanation or demonstration to know itself. It just knows because knowing is part of its nature.

Fame seems to carry with it an inability to be alone, or to be yourself without an audience, and the Hank Williams who encountered himself on Natchez Trace didn't like the company he found.

Knowing himself to be a backslider, and knowing that he had been weighed in the balance and found wanting in so many ways, he seemed to find rare peace in the hymns of his childhood.

Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.

Yes. I was, I see now, an asshole who wanted to roll the dice.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it." Those words stayed with me.

The other lawyer looked at him and said, "Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." In short, accept that your position was faulty, not your ego. This doesn't mean you don't argue with passion and intensity.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." In short, accept that your position was faulty, not your ego.

Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ask "What the hell is wrong with the projector?" and go up to the control room, you find it's empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time.

The mentally healthy individual is he who habitually calls upon fairly deep levels of vital reserves. An individual whose mind is allowed to become dormant - so that only the surface is disturbed - begins to suffer from'circulation problems'. Neurosis is the feeling of being cut off from your own powers.