Quotes about Self-awareness

What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?

Don't be irritated at people's smell or bad breath. What's the point? With that mouth, with those armpits, they're going to produce that odor. —But they have a brain! Can't they figure it out? Can't they recognize the problem? So you have a brain as well. Good for you. Then use your logic to awaken his. Show him. Make him realize it. If he'll listen, then you'll have solved the problem. Without anger.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense

Continually, and, if possible, in the case of every mental image, consider its nature, realize its emotional content, and judge it rationally.

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?

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

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.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

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.

Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.

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.