Quotes About Self-awareness

I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything important without it.

La tua personalità non è solo ciò che sai di te stesso, ma anche quello che gli altri sanno di te. Sei una persona con tua madre, un'altra con il tuo amante e un'altra ancora con tuo figlio. Queste altre persone ti creano – ti completano – esattamente come tu crei te stesso. Quando non ci sei più, chi è rimasto continua a conservare le parti di te che ha sempre avuto con sé.

If you gotta tell them who you are, you ain't nobody.

In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.

but a drunk doesn't care about what's been said before, he cares about now and about how he feels, dragging that stuff up is like putting on a good old blues song you've heard a hundred times. You know the words, but it still does you good.

I'm going to say my name is Dorothy Sherman and I'm telling it like it is. I'm going to say my friends call me Dot, and I prefer my enemies not to call me at all.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

Part of what makes him (laid-back Tim Hudson)an ace is that he would never acknowledge that he is an ace.

everything you seek and everything you experience—everything—is inside you. If you want to change anything, you do it inside, not outside. The whole idea is total responsibility. There's no one to blame. It's all you.

It's not your fault but it is your responsibility. —Dr. Joe Vitale

But I could not bear to look into this man's eyes any longer and see such voracious need, because what if I realized that I was standing in front of a mirror?

The desire to be desire-less is but another desire. The thought that, because this desire purports to be spiritual, it is superior to more mundane desires shows how skilled the mind is at justifying any desire it is attached to.

Sometimes I feel sorry for myself for some of the tougher things I've had to encounter in life, but other than that, I wouldn't change a thing. It makes me happy to know I could endure. And it gets easier and easier as you go on. [—Erykah Badu]

Whatever follows the "I am" will eventually find you.

You're not really free until you know you're not competing with anyone else. This

Whatever follows the "I am" will eventually find you. When

The good news is you get to choose what follows the "I am.

It's good to admire people, it's good to celebrate their gifts, but don't get so caught up in who they are that you forget who you are. You are gifted, you are talented, you are one of a kind.

It takes a mature person to recognize what you're not. Knowing what you're not will help you stay focused on becoming who you are, because there will always be pressures to be this, to be that, to be the other.

You can't let the outside pressures and other people squeeze you into becoming something that you're not.

God expresses God, and that expression appears as you.

The reason that you cannot feel any progress in yourself is that you cannot feel spiritual. There is no such thing as a person's feeling spiritual. That is as impossible as feeling that you are honest or feeling that you are moral.

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.