Quotes About Self-awareness

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I got my powers, but really I knew it before then. I learned it as a child on my first day of school, on the warm rainy streets of Bangkok, and in college. If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you're given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.

A patient man is one who can put up with himself.

The guilty catch themselves.

The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.

The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.

You have a fullness you need to bring out. It's not an emptiness you need to cover up with things.

At the beginning of each meditation, we ask ourselves: "Am I having thoughts of ill-will? Doubt? Restlessness and worry? Am I feeling lazy and sleepy? Is my mind filled with desires?" If so, we try to drop these obstacles, using the antidotes of loving-kindness and of calming the mind, remembering that there is nothing to gain and everything to get rid of.

In the final analysis we are all our own teachers and our own pupils and that is as it should be.

It is well worth our while to check out need against greed, and see where that takes us.

My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.

It takes no deep insight to see that the source of both our well-being and our maladies lies within our own hearts and minds. To change our experience of life we must inevitably change our hearts and minds, or rather our heart/minds.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

I learned another thing from the hurt my cousin gave me - never to give that kind of hurt to anyone else. My revenge was to change a bad feeling into a good one. If I'm working with you and I sense you're feeling a little insecure, I try to make you feel great. That's how I get rid of my old hurt. If I don't do that, my hurt grows and makes me mean and vengeful. But if hurt can change to kindness - that's something Mama showed me - the world becomes a little less cruel.

All of us do foolish things, but the wiser realize what they do. The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error. That failure is a common affliction of authority.

Half the troubles of the world come from looking at other folks in your own mirror.

She didn't need anyone to tell her he was all wrong for her and yet…

However, if there was a time that Sukumar didn't want to do a lot of push-ups, he didn't force himself. He did two and felt good about keeping the habit alive. Part of this skill is knowing when to back off and do only the baseline.

Sarika couldn't always tell if a manic high or a depressive low was sneaking up on her.