Quotes about Self-awareness
The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.
- Audre Lorde
When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
- Pema Chodron
You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.
- Marianne Williamson
Take inventory of yourself, see if any remnants of fear are standing in your way. Then you may grow... because nothing, absolutely nothing, can stand in your way.
- Napoleon Hill
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
- Wayne Dyer
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
- Maya Angelou
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
- Marcus Aurelius
Either you're going to be depressed when your wish is not realized or foolishly pleased with yourself if it is, overjoyed for the wrong reasons.
- Marcus Aurelius
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
- Marcus Aurelius