Quotes About Self-awareness

We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think?

To compare is not to improve.

Taking your own reflection as a lover is, moreover, another piece of prudent economy—for after all it costs nothing.

How many times do your feet have to press down on a path before they make an imprint, before pieces of soul start sticking?

There is reason to fear that men love better to investigate how muslins, hay-rakes, and, above all and inclusive of all, money may be made, than how their own minds are constructed

Never before had I believed or suspected that I had a soul but just then I knew I had. I knew also that my soul was friendly, was my senior in years and was solely concerned for my own welfare. For convenience I called him Joe. I felt a little reassured to know that I was not altogether alone. Joe was helping me.

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

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

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only.

When are we closest to God? When we see ourselves as we really are:

People, nearly all of them, don't know how to worry about others without being presumptuous, with finesse, with modesty. They think they know.

Self against self in a woman divided.

Begin. . . where you are, NOT where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story--if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other place to start from. Tell yourself that you are going to listen for the sound of your own voice--and remind yourself when you forget. And you will forget, over and over again.

If only the Powerful Choleric would open his mind to examine his weaknesses and admit he had a few, he could become the perfect person he thinks he is.

So we see man's work is ever with himself.

Man should watch himself hourly to detect if his motive for action is fear or faith.

The inharmonious situation comes from some inharmony within man himself. When there is, in him, no emotional response to an inharmonious situation, it fades away forever, from his pathway.

She replied: "I have been living with a woman who lied worse than I did!" One is often cured of his faults by seeing them in others. Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our associates. Living in the past is a failure method and a violation of spiritual law.

Nastiness of others is the mirror they give to us to realize our real beauty.

Some people mention the mistakes of others not to learn from them, but to claim they are perfect.

2. As soon as you become too interested in worldly pleasure and ease, your conscience objects. You are your own worst enemy when you act against your conscience. The wrong which you do becomes worse when you try to excuse yourself or justify your actions. 3.

Tôi yêu n?i b?t h?nh c?a tôi; nó ??ng hành v?i tôi. ?ôi lúc, khi nh?t th?i th?y h?nh ph?c, tôi c?m th?y th? gì ?ó nh? th? s? thi?u v?ng n?i ?au. Ta luôn nhanh chóng tr? nên nghi?n ng?p n?i u s?u c?a chính mình.

Tôi không bi?t mình là ai, nh?ng tôi bi?t ?i?u mình không mu?n là: m?t ng??i cô ??c. M?t ng??i cô ??c thì ch?ng là ng??i nào c?.