Quotes About Self-awareness

One of the major problems in the spiritual life is our attachment to our own self-image—either positively or negatively created. We have to begin with some kind of identity, but the trouble is that we confuse this idea of ourselves with who we actually are in God. Ideas about things are not the things in themselves. We all have to start by forming a self-image, but the problem is our attachment to it, our need to promote it and protect it and have others like it. What a trap!

Because the truth is, we never know for sure about ourselves. Who we'll sleep with if given the opportunity, who we'll betray in the right circumstance, whose faith and love we will reward with our own...Only after we've done a thing do we know what we'll do...

David has this theory that between your mom and dad and him and you there's, like, one complete person. Your father never thinks about anybody but himself, and your mom is always thinking about other people and never herself. David thinks only about the present and you only think about the past and the future.

Only after we've done a thing do we know what we'll do, and by then whatever we've done has already begun to sever itself from clear significance, at least for the doer. Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves.

Maybe, like children, we assume ourselves to be of central importance, and we're not. Maybe the inequities that consume us here on earth aren't really the issue.

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

Why did people say things like that about him, Randall wondered. It was as if someone had started a rumor when he was a baby and by now everybody had heard it. He never seemed strange to himself, despite the conventional wisdom.

As always, to Sully, the deepest of life's mysteries were the mysteries of his own behavior.

More painful than her naivete is the fact that she doesn't believe herself to be naive. Should you make the mistake of asking her why she's doing something so stupid, she'll explain it to you.

Toward no one in the world did he feel any fear now, for he knew that fear was useless; and toward no one in the world did he feel any hate now, for he knew that hate would not help him. Though

All of my life had shaped me to live by my own feelings and thoughts.

If we don't know what we do and why we do it, everything else will look like a possible option.

Self-aware learners create exceptional performances.

The best performers know themselves better than the competition.

Insight is the understanding that comes from self-awareness.

We've all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I'm tragically funny and good-looking.

I know, I'm an idiot! Leo moaned. A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot.

He hated when his own advice applied to himself.

Like the zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.' 'No, stupid,' Leo said, 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.

Don't you ever feel that way? Like you could do a better job if you rqan the world?' 'Um... no. Me running the world would be kind of a nightmare.

Are you crazy? Probably

I remember something Marcus Aurelius used to tell his son, a quote that later became famous in his Meditations book: Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe.

If I were a flowerpot, I would've checked my hair. ~Carter Kane