Quotes About Self-awareness

I cannot take credit for the fact that I do not have the soul of a psychopath.

wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one's own advice.

Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A refusal to lie to others – How did you get that bruise? – would oblige you to come to grips with this situation very quickly. Do you have a problem with drugs or alcohol? Lying is the lifeblood of addiction. If we have no recourse to lies, our lives can unravel only so far without others noticing. Telling the truth can also reveal ways in which we want to grow but haven't.

there is almost nothing more common than the belief that one is above average in intelligence, wisdom, honesty, etc.

How would your relationships change if you resolved never to lie again? What truths about yourself might suddenly come into view? What kind of person would you become? And how might you change the people around you? It is worth finding out.

But the true discipline is to remain committed, throughout the whole of one's life, to waking up from the dream of the self.

That which is aware of sadness is not sad. That which is aware of fear is not fearful. The moment I am lost in thought, however, I'm as confused as anyone else.

The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously used EEG to show that activity in the brain's motor cortex can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move.

Habitual identification with discursive thought is the source of human suffering

Unless someone is suicidal or otherwise on the brink, deciding how much he should know about himself seems the quintessence of arrogance. What attitude could be more disrespectful of those we care about?

there is an alternative to simply identifying with the next thought that pops into consciousness. And glimpsing this alternative dispels the conventional illusion of the self.

In the broadest sense, however, meditation is simply the ability to stop suffering in many of the usual ways, if only for a few moments at a time. How could that not be a skill worth cultivating?

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

I know I've made huge gains in my confidence, and knowing more about my racing and myself as a person. That has made me a better athlete

I don't think I'm unbeatable, nobody is

Thinking ... is what gets you caught from behind.

I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.

Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths.

True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation

The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.