Quotes About Self-awareness

I guess the real question is, Why not me? Why did I think I was going to get through this life without sorrow, pain, or grief?

I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch--what makes you go beyond the norm.

had no conviction. I had no foundation. My game changed from day to day, lesson to lesson. It seemed I had been looking everywhere but within. I thought about

Every man has a cemetery inside him. You don't know how big yours is until you dig in it.

She suspected that she was quite like Helena Kraft in that she was capable and ambitious and wanted to get a pat on the back from her superiors. That was not necessarily always a good thing though. With that tendency, if you operate in an unhealthy culture you risk becoming just as unhealthy yourself and — who knows, perhaps it is the will to please that leads people to crime just as often as evil or greed.

Încrederea exagerat? în propria capacitate ne expune riscurilor ?i ne împiedic? s? evolu?m. Îndoiala de sine joac? un rol decisiv pentru maturitatea noastr? intelectual?.

I have undertaken this project precisely because I am unqualified to do so.

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.

i will admit there's a certain degree of giving a fuck that goes into not giving a fuck. by saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your terms.

If we don't get to the roots of our sins, we will just keep confessing the same old things unproductively forever.

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.

Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.

Before you judge someone else, stop and think about all that God has forgiven you for.

Let the God within you express itself through you in the world without.

When I count other people's blessings I lose sight of mine.

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.

Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they are okay, you're it.

Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.