Quotes About Self-awareness

If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul.

You can choose to be a person who has resulted simply from what has happened, or from what you've chosen to be and do about what has happened.

The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.

And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.

Decide what it is that you are and then stay true to that thing. My brand is based very much on how I live my day-to-day life.

You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.

One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.

Remind people who they are instead of just complimenting them on what they've done.

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.

Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself.

Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

You know your flaws, don't hide them. Embrace them.