Quotes About Self-awareness

Joy, I realized, isn't so much a circumstance you find yourself in but a choice you make.

always assume people's behaviors are a reaction to something I've done, not that they're just doing their thing.

I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it. I

several weeks ago. I told myself

The best thing is to know. I always tell 'em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain't no other good way of livin'.

The best thing is to know. I always tell 'em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside.

Sometimes people don't know their dreams until they're in it. Other times, their dreams escape them because they are too busy being busy.

Even Cheetah said, "I don't want to like her, but sometimes I think I do. Wait! Did I just say that?

Is my name V? No... Then why would I follow U?

Like most authors, I'm a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access, I would waste countless hours looking up things about myself, writing fake posts about how great I am and arguing with people who don't like my work. It saves me a lot of time and frustration to just stay out of the loop.

Going out with a jerky guy is kind of like having a piece of food caught in your teeth. All your friends notice it before you do.

Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being.

And I am not old," she continued. "I am but thirty." "Ah, but you will be thirty-one come the sixth of March," he said. "You certainly are not young." "I believe we may have to return to the topic of my weight," she said tartly. "You will be more apt to see thirty-six that way.

She was, she realized, the unhappy possessor

Let no one say that young love is generous. It is selfish and hungry.

There are some guys you date who are so bad that when you tell the story about them, it reflects just as badly on you as it does on them.

I plucked the shower gel I used this morning from the grocery store shelf for no discernible reason. Why that shower gel? Was it because it had shea butter in it—do I even know what shea butter is?—or was it because it promised to make me feel younger, more refreshed, or softer to the touch? Was it because the packaging was simple and clean or was it because I was rushing through the store and just needed some G.D. shower gel?

I think, therefore I'm single.

I know nothing, I understand nothing, I am unaware of myself. I am in love, but with whom I do not know. My heart is at the same time both full and empty of love. (Attar)

Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.

You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.

Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day, but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.