Quotes About Self-awareness

I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

It doesn't hurt me. I'm not governed by the fear of what other people say. Events don't elicit feelings; I think beliefs elicit feelings, and I understand what my beliefs are and I know how I am.

My greatest enemy at one point was myself, and so now once I got over the fear of myself I don't fear any man. I never have.

Fear and guilt are your only enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By deciding to.

I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.

Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control.

Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.

Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself .

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.