Quotes About Self-awareness

Organizing your emotions reclaims your power over any given drama. Nothing is stronger than your own mind.

The night! When the outside world is hiding in darkness, you have to turn on the light within in order to see where you put your steps.

We always look behind, through, and beyond ourselves, never within.

Somehow, we each create our own prisons, one for which only we, hold the key.

There is no need for a long, persuasive introduction about self-confidence. If you are not a confident person, you already know it.

She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland.

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.

I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home -- within ourselves

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with!

Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self?

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.