Quotes About Self-awareness

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common...

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Those who go to bed with Ichy bum-wake up with stinky finger!

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: "What do I really need right now to be happy?" What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.

If God wanted me to be someone I was not, then I would not be the person I am today.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

An unexamined life is not worth living...

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending.

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.