Quotes About Self-awareness

The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.

No man is really changed by success. What happens is that success works on the man's personality like a truth drug, bringing him out of the closet and revealing… what was always inside his head.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.

All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.

You can never hide from your truth. If you do, you will always be lost.

Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.

The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself.

Who sees the other half of Self, sees Truth.

After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.

When in doubt, tell yourself the truth.

The simple truth is that you can understand the way you are. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you're just a part of it.

The truth remains. I was, and am, disgusted with myself.

Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

What would it be like to communicate from a part of your own self that is absolutely free from self-consciousness, that is fearless, uncorrupted, and passionately interested in the truth?.

The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.