Quotes About Self-awareness

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

As soon as you recognize that you are able to control your thoughts, happiness will come within your reach.

Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.

If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

A person can either do something in order to be happy, or... a person can start the day by simply deciding to BE happy and the things that person will do will automatically reflect that.

Think about what kind of person you are and shape your habits, and your happiness, to show what's true about you instead of thinking that you can just import the right answer from the outside.

And feel that I am happier than I know.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.

What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?

you already possess all you need to be genuinely happy.

I know a lot of ways to happiness! I also know some pretty fast shortcuts to misery.

You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."