Quotes About Self-awareness

I had become comfortable with my own numbness; to suddenly remember I was male and not yet dead was a nuisance.

To paraphrase Montaigne—even when you're sitting on the highest throne in the world, you're still sitting on your arse.

Emotional Alchemy, Tara Bennett-Goleman

And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices we make every second and requires constant vigilance. We have to fight to remain human.

Katie cleared her throat again. Then she looked into the window at her gums. She said, "To change the subject, do you think I could tell if I had gingivitis?

It's important to see who you're growing into and who you used to be.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

When people have no sense of self, relationships are just temporary distractions from the inner emptiness and fall apart at the first obstacle. My

Mas eu só queria saber neste mundo misturado quem concorda consigo mesmo! Somos misturas incompletas, assustadoras incoerências, metades, três-quartos e quando muito nove-décimos.

You are not happy when you feel happy, you are happy when you are happy.

El propósito de la existencia es reparar, enmendar y soltar lo que no somos y descubrir quiénes somos en verdad.

En el libro La Enseñanza de Buda dice: "Aunque un hombre conquiste a miles de hombres en los campos de batalla, sólo aquel que se conquiste a sí mismo ganará su batalla".

Remember, the security and happiness you are seeking is not in your material possessions, your degrees, or relationships. It is much closer than you think.

Ni Jesús ni Buda volverán para rescatarnos, lo que necesitamos para transformarnos está dentro nuestro.

Life is an inside job and it is much easier if we let it go and get out of our own way!

Dac? î?i în?elegi orgoliul, acesta dispare în mod natural. Dac? î?i în?elegi nefericirea, aceasta dispare la rândul ei. Dac? î?i în?elegi temerile, acestea se evapor?. Dac? î?i în?elegi ata?amentele, acestea dispar, iar ceea ce r?mâne în final este libertatea.

Cada vez que utilizamos cualquiera de sus herramientas, estamos tomando el 100% de la responsabilidad y pidiendo perdón (a nosotros mismos).

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

But what was fortune? She had come to believe it was being exactly the same on the inside as on the outside. What was misfortune but the quality of existing as something, or someone else, inside?

She wanted to tell him that whatever happened, whatever they chose, one day they would have to come awake, everyone would have to stand up and confront themselves and realize that it wasn't the Party that made them do it. One day, they would be alone with their actions.

She wanted to tell them that whatever happened, whatever they chose, one day they would have to come awake, everyone would have to stand up and confront themselves and realize it wasn't the party that made them do it. One day, they would be alone with their actions.