Quotes About Self-awareness

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

I am very far from practicing what I understand.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

Before you judge another, ask yourself if what you don't like in them is actually what you don't like in yourself.

The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they're talking about.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't.

I still look at myself and want to improve.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.

If you just look for what's right - in others, in relationships, in yourself and your journey - you'll always find it. Same when looking for what's wrong.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.