Quotes About Self-awareness

Remind yourself of the gap between stimulus and response. Make a commitment to yourself to exercise your freedom to choose.

Lo que nos hiere o daña no es lo que nos sucede, sino nuestra respuesta a lo que nos sucede.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Only when you have the self-awareness to examine your program—and the imagination and conscience to create a new, unique, principle-centered program to which you can say "yes"—only then will you have sufficient independent will power to say "no," with a genuine smile, to the unimportant.

Be true to yourself. Make each day your masterpiece! Help others. Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.

it's psychological.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Anytime we think the problem is "out there," that thought is the problem.

Instead of living out of the scripts given to me by my own parents or by society or by genetics or my environment, I will be living out of the script I have written from my own self-selected value system.

respecting the proactive nature of other people, we provide them with at least one clear, undistorted reflection from the social mirror.

Cuando reconocemos los guiones inefectivos, los paradigmas incorrectos o incompletos que están en nuestro interior, podemos empezar a reescribir proactivamente nuestros guiones

Perhaps I superimposed a higher-level expectation on her simply because on my own scale I was at a lower level. I was unable or unwilling to give patience or understanding, so I expected her to give things. In an attempt to compensate for my deficiency.

more you know the more you know you don't know.

if you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms. When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them.

Today we come across an individual who behaves like an automaton, who does not know or understand himself, and the only person that he knows is the person that he is supposed to be, whose meaningless chatter has replaced communicative speech, whose

Can you look at yourself almost as though you were someone else?

Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness and become like groveling animals who live primarily for survival and propagation.

Is there a chance the way I look at the people who work for me is part of the problem?

Habit 1 says, "You are the programmer." Habit 2, then, says, "Write the program." Until you accept the idea that you are responsible, that you are the programmer, you won't really invest in writing the program.

right" will have little to do with being found out. Ironically, you'll find that as you care less about what others think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves and their worlds, including their

Our secret life is where we are able to tap into the power of the four human endowments: self-awareness, conscience, imagination, and independent will.