Quotes About Self-awareness

All that you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within and you will surely find it.

There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

When you are calm, quiet and sensitive then you can expand. But when you are irritated, phobic, fearful, insensitive, and neurotic, you can't achieve anything.

Without realizing who you are, happiness cannot come to you.

What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

Whether you're 9 or 90, stop trying to fix the things you're bad at, and focus on the things you're good at.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often.

Before you can do something, you must first be something.

... humans have such a need to break everything down into right and wrong. It never occurs to you that you've made those labels up to help you define the material-and your Self.

The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to put energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.