Quotes About Self-awareness

If we are to be happy, it will be as ourselves.

Four words: Be gentle with yourself. It turns out they are some of the wisest words anyone has ever shared with me.

Being gentle with yourself consists of realizing your faults, failings, and weaknesses, and dealing with them appropriately. God doesn't want us to beat ourselves up. He wants us to press on and try again.

I am broken. Pretending otherwise is exhuasting.

On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy.

La felicidad es en gran medida como la riqueza y la sabiduría: aquellos que la poseen generalmente no necesitan hablar de ella, y aquellos que constantemente están hablando de ella generalmente no la poseen.

if I could flatter myself, that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

If my penis were a writer/director, it would be Woody Allen - small, neurotic, and, frankly, hit or miss.

I don't think -" I begin, but then I stop there. Strangely enough, this sounds like a full, declarative sentence, as if I'm standing in a bar shouting out one of my most obvious character flaws. I don't think!

You look good," I tell my reflection. "Hot?" But this last part comes out with a question mark at the end. I've never been good at sales.

That's me, giving myself a tough-love speech. I'm going to start doing that more often, I've decided. One might as well put his inner monologue to good use.

At some point within the first month I started talking to myself, which wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't for the fact that I was also answering myself. I'd never imagined how crucial English was to my sense of a unified self—part

Richard Polly, 1942–2017 "Knowing others is Wisdom, Knowing yourself is Enlightenment." —Lao-tzu

The human beings I know are mostly wonderful people, but they often fail to distinguish clearly between what they worked for and the good things that came their way. They also are not so good at seeing the difference between the character flaws of other people and bad things that happen to them.

I've never known someone to become more at home in his or her own body, in all of its flaws and its grace, without becoming more compassionate to all of life.

Incapaces de encontrar la felicidad en nosotros mismos, la buscamos desesperadamente en objetos, en experiencias, en maneras de pensar o de comportarse cada vez más extrañas. En pocas palabras: nos alejamos de la felicidad buscándola donde no existe.

Once we get used to looking at thoughts the moment they appear and then allowing them to dissipate before they overwhelm the mind, it is much easier to maintain control over the mind and to manage the conflictive emotions in our active lives.

We have come to take the dysfunctional aspect of ourselves for granted without realizing that it is possible to free ourselves from the vicious circle that is exhausting us.

With the help of experience, we can deal with negative emotions before they surface. We can "see them coming" and learn to distinguish those that bring suffering from those that contribute to happiness.

Understanding that the essential nature of consciousness is neutral permits us to understand that it is possible to change our mental universe. We can transform the content of our thoughts and experiences. The neutral and luminous background of our consciousness provides us with the space we need to observe mental events, rather than being at their mercy, and then to create the conditions necessary to transform them.

we don't need to train our minds to improve our ability to get upset or jealous.

Even if we can go on deceiving others, it becomes harder to hide the truth from ourselves.

la suffisance est l'apanage du sot, l'humilité est la vertu de celui qui mesure tout ce qui lui reste à apprendre et le chemin qu'il doit encore parcourir.

N'importe qui peut se mettre en colère. C'est facile. Mais se mettre en colère avec la bonne personne, au bon degré, au bon moment, pour la bonne raison et de la bonne façon Ã¢â'¬â€œ cela n'est pas facile11.