Quotes About Self-awareness

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.

The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.

Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not just constant sunshiny happiness.

I had little talent for happiness.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

You're not RESPONSIBLE for somebody else's happiness. You're responsible for your own HAPPINESS.

Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Authentic happiness comes from being in conscious connection with our inner being rather than dependency on outer things and circumstances which are constantly in a state of flux.

Learn how to feel joy.

The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

Happiness is self-connectedness.

I always see what's... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what's wrong. I never see what's right. It's not a recipe for happiness.

Learning to be aware of feelings, how they arise and how to use them creatively so they guide us to happiness, is an essential lifetime skill.

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless.