Quotes About Self-awareness

We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.

I'm not a gangster, I don't have no desire to be hard.

Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.

Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.

Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.

My mantra is that I can go back home at anytime. I have a degree, I am smart, and I am honest. I care about my career and what I do, yet I know my lane and where I desire to go.

You should have desires, but the desires should not have you.

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do.

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.