Quotes About Self-awareness

I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me.

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

I hope my head doesn't get very big. I'm just going to keep my feet on the ground, stick to friends and family and try to lead a normal life.

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

For someone like me, who prefers to keep their life as private as possible, it was disconcerting to have to define so much about myself. I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another.

I learned a great deal about myself, and it forced me to be introspective in a way that I'm not typically, but "reporting" on my own life became emotionally exhausting.

I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.

I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

If you want to be unhappy, uncomfortable, and insecure, just spend your life trying to do something that is not right for you. It is just like trying to wear shoes that don't fit.

My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.