Quotes About Self-awareness

U cant lead a group, when u don't know how to lead yourself

Another spiritual suggestion for remaining calm is to refrain from trying to control everyone around you. The more controlling you are, the more you'll get lost in ego land and removed from your spirit.

go. If you can't sleep at night, perhaps your body can't get your attention during the day.

If I was not in touch with my needs, then how could anyone else meet them?

I call your head a bad neighborhood because your head is full of a lot of babbling, conflicting information; most of it not yours, and most of it really bad.

The one who learns to live with his incapacity has learned a great deal.

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

You [I] have control over three things – what you [I] think what you [I] say, and how you [I] behave. To make a change in your [my] life, you [I] must recognize that these gifts are the most powerful tools you [I] possess in shaping the form of your [my] life.

Life is lived on the inside. What's outside doesn't matter.

I've been accused my whole life of being "too sensitive". This actually kind of pisses me off, but maybe that's just because I'm too sensitive.

If you are rejected by someone who doesn't really know you, then you are not being rejected for who you are. You are only being rejected for who that person thinks you are.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

The problem with life is, we often do things that will ultimately be self-destructive and make us unhappy, yet in that moment it seems like the best idea in the world. You have to be careful of moments - they're tricksy things.

Sometimes the person everyone is afraid of alarming or offending has a slightly less fixed idea about what sort of person they are, and they're neither alarmed nor offended. Unaware that others have carved their likes and dislikes in the psychological equivalent of stone, they dare to make exceptions to their own rules in a way that their nearest and dearest might not.

If you want to be happier than you are now, and solve your problem, nothing needs to change about your life situation. Only your thoughts need to change. Choose new thoughts: […] none of us have any problems that we don't create with our own thoughts.

The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

Nobody has ever been beyond his own Illusion of Life.

You can just be your self's stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal!

We can never succeed in knowing our own self without holidays and anniversaries.

By working with the elements we enable ourselves to be balanced and remain centred, whilst at the same time promoting personal growth through realization of imbalances within ourselves.

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.