Quotes About Self-awareness

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.

You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.

Life happens not to me but for me

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.

Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.

We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.

If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.

There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.

Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.

Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.

Though the universe is delightfully complex, life, at its heart, is not particularly complicated. Live true to who you are and though it won't always be easy, you'll live well.

I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.

A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life.

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

Look at the problems in your life. Ask yourself, 'What kind of thoughts am I having that create this?'

When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.

You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.