Quotes About Self-awareness

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

Not knowing who God made us to be, trying to be who we are not, or even just desiring to be someone else, can only lead to a life of misery, frustration, and unfulfillment.

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it's with you for life-like the color of your eyes.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

If you just change one person's life, you feel like you've done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it's amazing.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something.

Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator.

Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.