Quotes About Self-awareness

You can't divorce yourself from your own life experiences.

You must develop a rich inner life to enjoy life altogether.

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

People are not enjoying life because they're trying to be something or brand themselves.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

You say in life, mistakes are many. How come you never admit to any?

There were a lot of people, I found, whod rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life, Has business.

Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you.

i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it.

Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

I'm at a place in my life where I do finally feel, at least most of the time, that I know who I am and I'm comfortable with the person that I am.

Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.

Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

Take care what words you speak that follow "I am." In so speaking you create your life.