Quotes About Self-awareness

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

I may be the wrong person for my life.

Our duty is to understand youth, but more, to help them understand themselves that they may release their varied abilities... We must help them to discover a life work, not work for life.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

A story about my life would be utterly dull.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." Longfellow "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

Don't worry about my life, worry about why you're worried about my life!

Life is about becoming more of who you really are.

If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.

When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.