Quotes About Self-awareness

I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.

When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.

I learned that pretending you don't have feelings makes you feel unhappy and unfulfilled and, ultimately, is what really makes you vulnerable because you are hiding from the truth.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

Unless you're living in your truth, you're slowly killing yourself.

You have to feel your own personal truth with a little 't' – your sadness, rage, frustration for example -- in order to get to the Truth with a big 'T'.

I feel more comfortable being honest because I don't have to "remember" my answers. You never forget the truth! I just have to learn how much truth to give, that's my boundary. That's my new thing.

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.

You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.

The best thing you can give is God consciousness. Manifest your own divinity first. The truth is there. It's right within us all. Understand what you are.

The question is, "Are you spiritual or are you not?" The truth is you are. The reality is you don't believe it

In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself.

Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.

Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.