Quotes About Self-awareness

PERMALINK · 169465 · 15 HOURS AGO "She tried to feel sad, or guilty, or even to be angry about the way things had happened, but there frankly wasn't much room in either her head or her heart for wishing or moping.

We are often our own harshest critics

Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed. A portrait not only allows us to see our own faces, but how it looks to others.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

Because I've learned that you can't control what other people are going to think about you. The best you can do in life is not piss yourself off.

And here's the thing: I like who I am. I like the person I've turned out to be, and I know I'm not done evolving yet.

Right now I feel guilty to be alive. Why? Because I'm wasting it. I've been given this life and all I do is mope it away. What's worse is, I am totally aware of how ridiculous I am. It would be a lot easier if I believed I was the center of the universe, because then I wouldn't know any better not to make a big deal out of everything. I know how small my problems are, yet that doesn't stop me from obsessing about them. I have to stop doing this.

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

I was not myself, but if I was not myself, how did I know that? It was as if the old me, the authentic me, were inside, struggling to break free of the forces that had inhabited its body. The ghost within.

To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

A mad who knows that he is mad is not fully mad!

Always seek for balance in your life: If you stayed long in the darkness, walk long in the light; if you talked too much, stay silent for a good while; if you climbed the high mountains, hike long on the plains! Balance everything!

Declare not war against your emotions, or prepare for the inevitable defeat!

Everything needs a mirror to see what to change and what to love in itself, even a rock or a duck, everything!

Not every lake dreams to be an ocean. Blessed are the ones who are happy with whom they are.

Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!

What you care about is what makes who you are! If you care about peace, this makes you a man!

You may cross many bridges and you may travel many roads, but you will always carry your own nature with you! Your nature is your shadow!

Your travel on the road to truth starts with daring to suspect your own believes!

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.

We mock the things we are to be.

call m-m-me." Then there was a long pause and he said, "If n-n-nobody answers…" another pause, "…it's m-me!

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