Quotes About Self-awareness

Critical thinking is one of our highest achievements besides eating with a fork, so when we emotionally can't get what we want, we have to think our way towards the resolution and this is where we crash and burn.

we're living longer, getting taller, and are a push of a finger away from every other person on the planet and yet we do not know how to run ourselves. Maybe we're not supposed to know and when we're finished filling the world with parking lots, muffin shops and Starbucks, our point on Earth is finished and with one big cataclysmic boom we'll be gone.

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.

It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship.

There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

I realize that no one has been crueler to me than I have been to myself. The most dangerous place on earth is inside my head.

Know who you are, and deliver at all times.

The bad news is that your inner saboteur never goes away. The good news is that it can be managed.

If you are a liar you naturally assume everyone is lying to you. If you're a cheat you assume everyone is cheating you. If you are loving you assume everyone is loving towards you. Your experience here is a reflection of your outward projection.

Fabulous lover, excellent decorator - rotten writer? Nobody can be good at everything, and two out of three ain't bad.

I firmly believe in shutting up when you've got nothing worthwhile to say. There's nothing worse than these writers who churn out book after book, each one a little duller, until nobody can remember why they liked them in the first place.

I think I have learnt something of the value of stillness. I don't fret so much; I laugh at myself more often; I don't laugh at others. I live life at my own pace. Like a banyan tree. Is this wisdom, or is it just old age?

There is a distinction to be made between aloneness and loneliness.

Many folk's troubles would be less Could they be brought to understand That oft they cause their own distress, And hold its cure in their own hand. ~ Snippet from The Faith Cure by A.G. SHIRREFF

Self-awareness ? Inhibition ? Nonverbal working memory ? Verbal working memory ? Emotion regulation ? Self-motivation

Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves