Quotes About Self-awareness

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

He asked himself those some questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was

It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

we're allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us

When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.

All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.

I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself.