Quotes about Self-awareness

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

If you can get out of your own way, you won't be in anyone else's.

That which had made Helmholtz so uncomfortably aware of being himself and all alone was too much ability.

It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.

Meditation on the bus. Rainy and cold. Thinking gloomily of the sins and shortcomings of others, it suddenly came to me to remember my own offenses, just as heinous as those of others. If I concern myself with my own sins and lament them, if I remember my own failures and lapses, I will not be resentful of others. This was most cheering and lifted the load of gloom from my mind. It makes one unhappy to judge people and happy to love them.

The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars.

Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.