Quotes about Self-awareness

That was the voice of one who knew his own mind.

If you attempt to build intimacy with a person before you've done the hard work of becoming a whole and healthy person, every relationship will be an attempt to complete the hole in your heart and the lack of what you don't have. That relationship will end in disaster.

As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for.

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.

LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that really count are the things that happen in you." 

The Book of Life says, "As a man thinketh, so is he, and as he continues to think, so he remains."6 Earl Nightingale asked the question: "What's wrong with men today?" He answered the question by saying, "Men simply don't think!" Not only do we often not think, but even when we do think, we think with the world mind. This is why we must re-think our lives!

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.