Quotes about Self-awareness

Over the years, I've found that anger is necessary, but it must reach an equilibrium: You need just enough but never too much. If you don't let it in, you become hollow; but if you let it take over, you become its slave.

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

The myth of my solitude makes me laugh.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

Nothing's more charming than someone who doesn't take herself too seriously.

True love brings up everything you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

This is why we believe in Jesus Christ—to help us see that we are not what we ought to be and to help us become what we ought to be.

It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature.

If you know your own mind, you know enough to keep it always positive.

Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind. Thoughts which a man deliberately places in his own mind, and encourages with sympathy, and with which he mixes any one or more of the emotions, constitute the motivating forces, which direct and control his every movement, act, and deed!

The cause of all power, as of all weakness, is within; the secret of all happiness as of all misery is likewise within.