Quotes About Self-awareness

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.

Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.

Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.

If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it.

The test in life nowadays is just trying to keep yourself charged up with enough good feeling. It's like, "OK what am I going to do to feel really good today?" Not like, some chick or a drink.

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.

My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.

I have never judged life. If I had, I would have been a complete mess.

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.

Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

The key to life is to be happy with or without money. Money only magnifies who you really are.