Quotes about Self-awareness
Continually, and, if possible, in the case of every mental image, consider its nature, realize its emotional content, and judge it rationally.
— Marcus Aurelius
Give yourself a gift: the present moment. People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now. And just as mortal. What does it matter to you if they say x about you, or think y?
— Marcus Aurelius
If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act rightly, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth
— Marcus Aurelius
Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you. Nor can the shifts and changes in the world around you. —Then where is harm to be found? In your capacity to see it.
— Marcus Aurelius
It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
— Marcus Aurelius
He that knoweth not what the world is, knoweth not where he himself is. And he that knoweth not what the world was made for, cannot possibly know either what are the qualities, or what is the nature of the world.
— Marcus Aurelius
Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.
— Marcus Aurelius
What a shame that the mind can command the face to assume whatever look or expression it pleases, but cannot command itself and govern its own thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius
Be content to seem what you really are.
— Marcus Aurelius
Look within. Within is the fountain of Good, ready always to well forth if thou wilt alway delve.
— Marcus Aurelius
What is outside the scope of my mind has absolutely no concern with my mind. Learn this lesson and thou standest erect.
— Marcus Aurelius
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
— Cicero