Quotes About Self-awareness

The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

Don't go back over your life with a red pen.

In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

I am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life.

The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

I'm a very sensitive person, and I feel what makes me vulnerable. But I see that as a good thing. I really enjoy experiencing all the different emotions in life.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

I just see me, an ordinary girl. I know my life is not typical, but I have tried to stay really grounded and true to myself. My family really helps me with that.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.