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Quotes About Self-awareness

You're convinced that anybody who meets you for the first time will consider you a shit, so you take preventive action. Relax, boychick. When they get to know you better they will realize that they were right. You are a shit.
~ Mordecai Richler
If you would have peace, genuine peace, you must accept all the aspects of your personality and learn to be comfortable with them.
~ Morgan Llywelyn
Nobody truly knows me, but I suppose that's the way it is for everyone. Or at least I hope so. We seem to have the tendency to put on a front in the best interests of ourselves, but eventually these fronts weld themselves to us until we no longer recognize our own soul in the mirror.
~ Unknown
Do not concern yourself with the right and wrong of others. Do not be calculating or act unnaturally
~ Morihei Ueshiba
As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you
~ Morihei Ueshiba
A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind
~ Morihei Ueshiba
As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves?
~ Unknown
Don't blame other people for your own mistakes.
~ Morris Gleitzman
En todas partes el hombre ha tomado conciencia de sí mismo como un animal de tránsito y lucha desesperadamente por afirmar su derecho a lo mejor del mundo durante el breve período que habita en él.
~ Unknown
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
~ Mortimer Adler
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
I am a failure in most of the things, But believe me.. in things I know I can; I am the best
~ Unknown
Popcorns do not all pop at the same time. Run your race at your own pace.
~ Unknown
Know thyself deathless and able to know all things, all arts, sciences, the way of every life. Become higher than the highest height and lower than the lowest depth. Amass in thyself all senses of animals, fire, water, dryness and moistness. Think of thyself in all places at the same time, earth, sea, sky, not yet born, in the womb, young, old, dead, and in the after death state.
~ Unknown
Recreation becomes a means to re-create one's consciousness at every moment instead of a means to forget oneself and to pass the time.
~ Unknown
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
~ Muhammad Ali
My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.
~ Muhammad Ali
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
~ Muhammad Ali
How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.
~ Muhammad Ali
I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.
~ Unknown
I moved a part of my bed a little distance away from the domain of fear and desire.
~ Unknown
Well, we never expected this!" they all say. "No one liked her. They all said she was pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of her tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous, and scornful. But when you meet her, she is strangely meek, a completely different person altogether!" How embarrassing! Do they really look upon me as a dull thing, I wonder? But I am what I am.
~ Murasaki Shikibu