Quotes About Self-awareness

Günümüzde art?k kimse kabahatini kabullenmek istemiyor, herkes kurban görülmek istiyor ve bunu s?kl?kla, en olmayacak ?artlarda dahi ba?ar?yor.

?nsan ba?kalar?n?n kusurlar?n? yabayla saman savururcas?na kolay aç??a ç?kar?r ama kendininkileri kurnaz bir kumarbaz?n zar?n? tutu?undaki ustal?kla saklar." - Buda

?nsan, hayvan oldu?unu bilen, dolay?s?yla hayvan gibi davranmama seçene?ine sahip tek hayvand?r.

Aptal, bilge oldu?unu zanneder ama bilge, aptal oldu?unu bilir." - Shakespeare

The natural tendency of man is to remain unconscious.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

Your body has a remarkable ability to recover from sporadic insults as long as you're not habitually poking it with a fork.

That's remarkable too, she thought; whenever we make a noble statement it sounds false in our ears.

The Olo believe that's why we sleep in the first place—so we can listen to and deal with the other folks who're living in our heads.

Sometimes we know people who are too wonderful for words. I am not one of them. Or you, for that matter, as you well know.

Before they can know what they need, they need to know who they are. This is one of Belichick's core philosophies, and it is why he was sitting in this Gillette Stadium room with a binder, notebook, pens, and pages of football statistics.

I was happy as a clam. But who wants to be a clam?

The reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched and slightly stooped, would be alarming were it not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across my face. I would ask the obvious question, "What are you smiling about?" but I already know the answer: "It just gets better from here".

releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison in which you're both the inmate and the jailer.

For the more we think of ourselves as self-made and self-sufficient, the harder it is to learn gratitude and humility. And without these sentiments, it is hard to care for the common good.

Happiness lies deep within us, in the very core of our being. Happiness does not exist in any external object, but only in us, who are the consciousness that experiences happiness. Though we seem to derive happiness from external objects or experiences, the happiness that we thus enjoy in fact arises from within us.

Of all the thoughts that are formed in our mind, the first is the thought 'I'. Our mind first forms itself as the thought 'I', and only then does it form other thoughts. Without an 'I' to think or know them, no other thoughts could be formed. All the other thoughts that

This level of emotional integration is only possible when we decrease our pain and discomfort to a point where we view all emotion as "energy in motion," instead of deeming some emotions as threatening and to be avoided, while we find others so seductive that we are driven uncontrollably into activity because of them.

Any behavior we resort to in order to avoid feeling what we are really feeling in any given moment is an addiction.

It is tempting to think that in order to change our experience of our world we need to force others to change. Such thinking is an abdication of our power to change ourselves.

Come sit down beside me, I said to myself, And although it doesn't make sense, I held my own hand As a small sign of trust And together I sat on the fence.

He suggested a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

Education at a deep level means to 'lead out' what is trying to be born from within. The job of a true teacher is to help awaken the inner pupil that has its own way of being and unique way of perceiving the world.

At critical moments the veil between the little-self and the deep self thins and a meaningful self-adjustment becomes possible. If a person does not become paralyzed with fear or frozen in hatred, the wise self hidden within will rise to the occasion.