Quotes About Self-awareness

we are very much responsible for our happiness as well as our unhappiness.

Our goal should therefore be to become indifferent to other people's opinions of us. He adds that if we can succeed in doing this, we will improve the quality of our life.

Thus, Epictetus advises us to form "a certain character and pattern" for ourselves when we are alone. Then, when we associate with other people, we should remain true to who we are.

The emotions are perfectly willing to listen to the intellect as long as the intellect isn't trying to impose its views but is merely trying to help the emotions get what they want.

An honest assessment of our own capabilities, without conceit and without false modesty, is one of the first essentials of a useful life.

It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beasts, and you become a wild beast yourself. (""The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah")

If she knew me as I really am she would despise me, and certainly not aid or abet my evil designs. To veil their vices from the sight of the good is the only resource of those who are not blind and know themselves to be vicious.' Thus was I confirmed in habits of hypocrisy; and these, for a time, worked only too effectually to my advantage.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect.

Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.)

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

Wise leaders, understanding that example is the most powerful tool they can employ, start with themselves: "What part of my identity—of the way I come across, and even the way I experience myself—do I need to let go of if we are going to enter the Path of Renewal?

Os verdadeiros começos começam dentro de nós, mesmo que suscitados por oportunidades externas.

GRASS: Guilt, Resentment, Anxiety, Self-absorption, and Stress. These are the five real and measurable costs of not managing transition effectively.

Always consider the possibility that you may be wrong. Especially when you are absolutely certain you are right.

Spiritual stagnation is the real hell. As long as souls believe they are a human body, they will continue to imprison themselves in the outer dimensions of the universe.

escape our own mind.

At death this fixed self-identity

William Buhlman

operate on automatic and never reflect on our inner dialogue.

May she be granted beauty and yet not Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught, Or hers before a looking-glass, for such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend....

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

There are times when I have the uneasy sense that I am ceding a big part of my autonomy to the pharmaceutical industry. I wonder who I would be if I weren't taking Prozac. Maybe I would be a tortured genius....or maybe I would be just me, with periods of dank despondency.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.