Quotes About Self-awareness

No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.

The wise are who they are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do.

When you know and respect your own inner nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

Do you want to be really happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got. Do you want to be really miserable? You can begin by being discontented.

Those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly healthy and neglect their weaknesses. So, in that sense at least, a weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

A Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there. The same goes for one's limitations, whether Tiggers know it or not- and Tiggers usually don't. That's the trouble with Tiggers, you know: they can do everything. Very unhealthy.

Do you want to be really happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.

Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, an Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the way of Owl and Rabbit. Now, like Eeyore, we complain about the results. But that accomplishes nothing. If we are smart, we will choose the way of Pooh.

There was a man who disliked seeing his footprints and his shadow. He decided to escape from them, and began to run. But as he ran along, more footprints appeared, while his shadow easily kept up with him. Thinking he was going too slowly, he ran faster and faster without stopping, until he finally collapsed from exhaustion and died. If he had stood still, there would have been no footprints. If he had rested in the shade, his shadow would have disappeared.

The Wise are Who They Are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do.

In other words, everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your own Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong. One man's food is often another man's poison, and what is glamorous and exciting to some can be a dangerous trap to others.

Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.

How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

Ich bin eben kein Erzähler wie du.

So you could write what you know. The problem, of course, is that some people don't know shit.

You know what your problem is? You're so convinced you're bad, it gets in the way of being good.

Of all beings man is the only one who himself names his own kind, as he is the only one whom God did not name.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do -- of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be).

If we look outside ourselves to find love and peace we will ultimately fail. It has to come from within.

Perhaps there were two areas he didn't go into: clothes, and his relationship with women.

For a thinking person, the most serious mental illness is not being sure of who you are.