Quotes About Self-awareness

No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

Self-consciousness kills communication.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.

You can't run away from yourself

What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.

I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.

One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Do not believe in me or any other teacher, rather trust in your own inner voice. This is your guide, this is your teacher. Your teacher is within not without. Know yourself, not me!

Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.

When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts.

I've clearer idea of how I don't want to be seen - as someone who does what everyone wants them to.

I can trust my friends... these people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

I don't want to say my biggest mistake--I don't want to tell the whole world that. Trust me, I've made plenty. But I don't regret them because they've made me the person that I am right now.