Quotes about Self-awareness
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
— Thomas Merton
He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.
— Publilius Syrus
We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.
— Heinrich Heine
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
— Francis de Sales
Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the maker of his life, his reward, his punishment.
— Anonymous
I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice; but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable, but that I was not very lovable myself.
— George Bernard Shaw
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
— Dorothy Sayers
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
— Samuel Johnson
Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.
— Tina Fey
He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.
— William Hazlitt
If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.
— Joyce Meyer