Quotes About Self-awareness

Al despuntar la aurora, hazte estas consideraciones previas: me encontraré con un indiscreto, un ingrato, un insolente, un mentiroso, un envidioso, un insociable.

He would have claimed to be, at best, a diligent student and a very imperfect practitioner of a philosophy developed by others.

No consumas la parte de la vida que te resta en hacer conjeturas sobre otras personas, de no ser que tu objetivo apunte a un bien común; porque ciertamente te privas de otra tarea; a saber, al imaginar qué hace fulano y por qué, y qué piensa y qué trama y tantas cosas semejantes que provocan tu aturdimiento, te apartas de la observación de tu guía interior.

16. The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. Color it with a run of thoughts like these:

Don't worry about what others think. Mind what you think. Watch the movements of your mind, and focus your thoughts on something worthy.

Remember how long you've been putting this off…At some point you have to recognize what world it is that you belong to; what power rules it and from what source you spring; that there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.

Tempat paling aman bagi manusia adalah pikirannya sendiri

Not easily is a man found to be unhappy by reason of his not regarding what is going on in another man's soul; but those who do not attend closely to the motions of their own souls must inevitably be unhappy.

Don't give up if you fail to follow your principles — don't give up, but simply pick yourself up and return to them. Remember that these principles are in line with your true self, and what you fell to was not.

Acostumbrarme a la idea de que es necesario corregir el carácter y vigilar las inclinaciones

Look within. Within is the fountain of Good, ready always to well forth if thou wilt alway delve.

In every action ask thyself, How does it affect me? Shall I regret it? But

If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now.

Do not be overheard companining. Not even to yourself.

Be not dilatory in doing, nor confused in conversation, nor vague in thought; let not thy soul be wholly concentred in itself nor uncontrollably agitated; leave thyself leisure in thy life.

Fritter not away what is left of thy life in thoughts about others, unless thou canst bring these thoughts into

For verily thou dost hereby cut thyself off from other work, that is, by thinking what so and so is doing and why, what he is saying, having what in mind, contriving what, and all the many like things such as whirl thee aside from keeping close watch over thine own ruling Reason.

Nothing is more miserable than one who is always out and about, running around everything in circles and looking for signs and symptoms to divine his neighbor's minds. He doesn't realize that it is sufficient to concentrate solely on the divinity within himself and to give it true service.

Die Aufgabe des Lebens besteht nicht darin, auf der Seite einer Mehrzahl zu stehen, sondern dem inneren Gesetz gemäß zu leben.

I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much – people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.

For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us

Often have I marvelled how each one of us loves himself above all men, yet sets less store by his own opinion of himself than by that of everyone else.

Dwell on thoughts that are in harmony with nature and her laws, and act accordingly. Don't let yourself be pulled off course by the insults or injuries of others. Let them go their way and you go yours, continuing on the path of reason. This is not selfish or antisocial on your part—far from it. Your individual reason is not opposed to the common good, but in harmony with it.