Quotes About Self-awareness

The further away from your higher self you are, the harder things become and the more intense and turbulent your emotions may be.

Loving the self involves faith and trust and belief in who you are, and a willingness to take action upon it.

Respond to negative thoughts as you would to small children who do not know any better; simply smile and show them a better way to be.

True joy comes from operating with Inner-directedness and recognizing who you are.

I like to play different versions of myself, but I think that's kind of what everyone ultimately really does. There are a few people who are real chameleons and can sink into something and truly disappear ... but that is really not what I was meant to do.

I love to watch people. I don't need to be the center of attention. I don't like to suck the air out of a room because there's so much to be gained by just being quiet. I'm like a time release capsule. It may take me 12 hours to fully absorb and suddenly I'm releasing my crazy again.

You know something funny? I never came out. I feel like who I am spoke for itself, and I never wanted my sexuality to be my defining moment, and it isn't, so I feel like to me, the most important thing is that you're comfortable in your own skin.

I nodded yes. Another deceit. I have become a person I do not care for.

Sometimes I feel like I'm not only the engine but the caboose. I have to be in the front car and pull forward, and at the same time run around behind and push everybody along with me.

If you find that you are frequently doing battle with or feeling seduced by such people, look to see what old problems you are trying to resolve by allowing yourself to engage in what are, essentially, impossible relationships.

Men soon the faults of others learn, A few their virtues, too, find out; But is there one?I have a doubt? Who can his own defects discern?

The person who does not see, hear or know anything other than the True Self is all-pervading. As long as you perceive things other than your Self, and consider those entities to be real, you will remain limited and finite, not infinite and eternal.

Je leven is niet iets wat je achter je kunt laten of waar je voor weg kunt lopen. Want je leven, dat ben je zelf. Mensen... dat is een heel ander verhaal. Voor mensen kun je weglopen.

Waktu berjalan ke Barat di waktu pagi hari matahari mengikutiku di belakang. Aku berjalan mengikuti bayang-bayangku sendiri yang memanjang di depan. Aku dan matahari tidak bertengkar tentang siapa di antara kami yang telah menciptakan bayang-bayang, aku dan bayang-bayang tidak bertengkar tentang siapa di antara kami yang harus berjalan di depan.

Don't make excuses for me. I was an ass. I'm still an ass. I broke up with you, and you deserve better.

I'm sure there are many women who would prefer not to have children, but few of them are honest with themselves about that.

Later, as life wore on, I would realize that most people think everyone hates them. The truth is worse; for most people, no one is thinking of them at all.

If you hate yourself enough, you'll start to hate anyone who reminds you of you. And if you stick with it, you'll come to hate anyone who doesn't see how just awful you are.

I know," I said. "I'm working on being as stupid as everyone else but I'm not there yet. I'm hoping more drugs will help. They say they kill brain cells.

I wasn't just wrong. I was wrong in such a vast and specific way that I felt like the punchline of a cruel joke.

Saturn Return is where you reconcile the parts of your life that you've chosen with the parts where you've let yourself get carried away.

Where do things start going off-track to turn a good day into a medium or bad day? 2 Are there specific events or behaviors that trigger it? 3 What's one thing I could change in my day that would make a noticeable improvement?

You are one of those courageous people who want to dare to live; and to do so believe you have to explore the depths of yourself, undistracted and unprotected by social conventions and norms.

Do you ever have the feeling that everybody's making everything up, all the time?