Self Awareness Quotes

The more things you have in common with the normal population the more you are not being yourself.

The feeling of 'turning into your dad' is nothing compared to the realisation that your son is turning into you.

Worship is invoking the divinity within. Meditation is awareness of divinity within. Enlightenment is realization of divinity within. Nirvana is being the divinity

I saw for the first time that I could stop giving people the power to make me feel disrespected. In my anger I began to see the absurdity of allowing this boy to shame me.

The road to empowerment starts from self-awareness

You will find what you seek.

Go find yourself first so you can also find me.

Before we come to Christ, we must come to ourselves.

I am a new universe beginning to expand.

self-awareness: the ability to realize what we are doing as we do it, and understand why we are doing it.

The snowball of selfishness quickly becomes an avalanche.

Ani saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare.

[T]he only thing that has power over you is what you can't say, even to yourself.

We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed

Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us?

Peace is just around the corner, the only problem is the world is round! (created this on 9-11-01 after the WTC crash.)

He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everybody he loved.

It is good to know one's enemy.It is better to know one's self.

The question is not 'Am I a leader?' - the question is 'What kind of leader am I?

Sometimes what you've been looking for, is what you are.

In that hurry to achieve, I've left little time for self-reflection. And I'm not sure I'm ready for it.

If you have a fight with yourself, who can win?

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now.

You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.

Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead.

Bad friends are those who make you cry.Good friends are those who understand why you're crying.Best friends are those who do everything to stop you from crying.

No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.

Self-contemplation is a curseThat makes an old confusion worse.

How could a man know the truth of his own soul?

Only through becoming aware of yourself and your limitations can you be transparent with others.

In a world filled with liars, some still seem surprised at the lengths to which some will go-yet we fear our own truth & so become numb to our own senses.

Honest self-understanding liberates us from our stuck emotions.

Knowing what environments are a good fit requires a person to know about themselves, in other words, to have self-awareness.

The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.

We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change.

...some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.

Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray lives you all lead. How much of what you say is unnecessary.

To really know who you are, your core self, you need to know who you are pretending to be and who you are not, and the way to heal is the same way to grow in awareness.

The pursuit of historical relevance is an under appreciated endeavor.

Seek within, for the answer cannot be found without.

The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits.

A GOOD man values his INTEGRITY and CHARACTER. NEVER deal with one that has no SELF RESPECT!

Fear is an excellent motivator.

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

Being impeccable is not going against yourself. When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions but you do not judge or blame yourself.

Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected.

Be your own self. Love what YOU love.

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.