Quotes About Self-awareness

How are you gonna make an 'idol' from the type of person you're trying to avoid in real life?

What you get to choose today is who you are and what you wish to experience in your life. Remember, not to decide is to decide.

Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself

Did you ever realize you have more opinions about my life than your own life?

It is the ability to focus our attention on self-motivating thoughts, rather than being mesmerised by negatives, which rests at the very heart of a healthy approach to life.

I live my life and I do what I do, and sometimes you forget that people are watching you.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You're not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.

I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own.

Many times in my life I've been upset about something and said to myself, "Will this matter in two years?" Not even in two months.

Life's all about 'me' anyway

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else.

I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me

I believe everyday your life speaks to you - through every experience, through the people you meet, and even through pain, fear and self-doubt.

Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.

Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.

You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted and that's what all conditioning is.

Fools are more healthy then the so-called wise. Thy live in the moment and they know that thy are fools, so thy are not worried about what others think about them.

You are creating your own hell.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves?

I always think that I'm still this 13-year old boy that doesn't really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I'll really have to do it.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).