Quotes About Self-awareness

Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.

Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.

We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.

My life is not my own business.

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life - you won't enjoy any of it.

My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.

Childhood decisions do not have to define you.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.

My life is littered with bad decisions.

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

Dylan talked copiously then stopped, 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think its me.

For any kind of mindfulness training to work for you, you have to be present in your life. That includes being present—mind and body—when your emotions are stirring things up. That's when you want to be clear about your thoughts, and clear about what you see, hear, and feel. That's when mindfulness really becomes your greatest friend.

So when emotions come up, mind the gap. First feel them, then hold still without reacting, and then look—look at the gap.