Quotes About Self-awareness

We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up...

Before you sign my death-warrant, be sure that you are yourself safe.

I am unstable, sometimes melancholy, and have been called on some occasions imperious; but I never did an ungenerous act in my life. I sympathise warmly with others, and have wasted my heart in their love.

At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification.

intended to reason. This passion is detrimental to me; for you do not reflect that you are the cause of its excess.

Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished hope, it is true; but it vanished, when I beheld my person reflected in water, or my shadow in the moon-shine

but how was I terrified, when I viewed myself in a transparent pool! At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification.

This passion is detrimental to me; for you do not reflect that you are the cause of its excess.

Imitating others, I failed to find myself. I looked inside and discovered I only knew my name. When I stepped outside I found my real Self. ~Rumi

How useless to know the value of all things but to know nothing of one's own worth.

You never encounter the same person twice, for everyone perpetually changes second by second. This even applies to parent and child, husband and wife, brother and sister. You are wrong in grabbing the past image of a person and thinking that what you see now is the same person you saw in the past. Of course, it is also a fact that you too are changing second by second. You should live with this fact strongly imprinted on your mind: All human beings are constantly renewing themselves.

forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do, the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail

Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.

We are humans, not fish. We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?

Those who cannot acknowledge themselves will eventually fail

You're overthinking it.' 'I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.

No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.

more information on emotional intelligence, I highly recommend Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Robbins.

When we're talking about honesty, it's important to be honest with yourself about your feelings and emotions. If

What is going on now?" What is your body saying? Then

That also goes to being honest with yourself and your emotions.

The comedian Emo Philips once joked that he considered his brain to be the most fascinating organ in his body – until he realised who was telling him this.

Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.