Quotes About Self-awareness

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life!

I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. --Steelmind

I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.

In New Zealand I think we often take ourselves too seriously, and being able to laugh at yourself is necessary in life without being too precious.

What is important in your life is what you decide is important -- and this decision will indelibly create who you are

Make sure you pay attention to what's right with your life, not just what's wrong.

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.

Stop it now and take control. Write this on a card and pin it up where you can see it... MY THOUGHTS CONTROL MY LIFE!

It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

I am really unable to talk about my life - I don't know my life. I've travelled a lot and this is the life that I have lived, but that doesn't mean that I know myself.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

Study the hurtful patterns of your life. Then don't repeat them.

I find anger to be funny. I find people that are so wrapped up in their own personalities to be funny, and lost. Like myself in real life.

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.

One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.

They criticize because they don't have a life. It's easy to criticize another person.