Top 100 Quotes About Self Awareness
#1. Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.
Gordon W. Allport
#2. The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#3. Yoga is about balance, both mind and body, as well as increasing self-awareness, with by-products of better strength and flexibility.
M.E. Dahkid
#4. You need to remember that. If you're to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#5. Nothing can touch the one who is oodasin (one unperturbed by worldly life). After attaining Knowledge of the Self, if one applies awareness of the Self, one can remain unperturbed (oodasin).
Dada Bhagwan
#6. Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,
and meditate to know if the world's true or lies,
may do so. It's their choice. But I meanwhile
with hungry eyes that can't be satisfied
shall take a look at the world in broad daylight.
Rabindranath Tagore
#7. Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them.
Mark Slouka
#8. I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.
C. JoyBell C.
#9. Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.
Enza Vita
#10. I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.
Carl R. Rogers
#11. You do not need any more strength. You only need to realize how strong you already are.
Vironika Tugaleva
#12. Shed who you think you are, in order to experience who you really are.
Evita Ochel
#13. My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness.
Sri Chinmoy
#14. All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.
M. Russell Ballard
#16. No amount of money can buy you style. Having good style takes thought, creativity, confidence, self-awareness, even sometimes a little bit of work.
Sophia Amoruso
#17. Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills, including attention, focus, stress management, impulse control, and self-awareness.
Kelly McGonigal
#18. The greatest victory comes not from winning against enemies but from winning over one's self.
Debasish Mridha
#19. When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our inner senses. Infused with silence and solitude, they bring out the mystery of inner landscape.
John O'Donohue
#20. We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.
Graydon Carter
#21. Keeping 'pure focused applied awareness of the Self (Soul)' (shuddha upayog) is the same as being in the Absolute Supreme Self-form (Parmatma swaroop).
Dada Bhagwan
#22. We can't control on how each day will fall, but we can control how we fall into each day. Learn to make adjustments to match the circumstances.
Anthony Liccione
#23. Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you've gained.
A.J. Darkholme
#24. Some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.
W. Somerset Maugham
#25. Embracing change can be daunting, but it is our willingness to do better that makes it worthwhile.
Peprah Boasiako
#26. The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.
C. JoyBell C.
#27. But unlike Lachlan and Alison, my demons aren't self-induced. My demons are fate's way of telling me I won't escape unscathed.
Kaitlyn Oruska
#28. I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.
Marianne Williamson
#29. Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.
Amit Ray
#30. There are self-awareness groups, to help you discover who you really are ... encounter groups, to help you deal with who you really are ... assertiveness training groups to help you stand up for who you really are ... Suddenly, the only way to become an individual is to join a group.
Cathy Guisewite
#31. We are trapped in a net of our our own self-doubt, on the programming force fed to us by parents, schools, society. In a certain light, on certain days, you can see that net. And once you can see it, you can learn to make it go away.
Chloe Thurlow
#32. Don't call me an egoist.; let an egoist name me so!
Raheel Farooq
#34. True joy comes from operating with Inner-directedness and recognizing who you are.
Sanaya Roman
#35. Once your heart overflows with love, another heart will follow. And so it goes.
Yeshua: One Hundred Meaningful Messages for Messengers
Janet G. Nestor
#36. Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both
Leo Buscaglia
#37. When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance.
Steve Goodier
#38. The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves.
Chris Matakas
#39. Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."
Abraham Maslow
#40. When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all - because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.
Eva Hoffman
#41. Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.
Abhijit Naskar
#42. I am Chandubhai' is good or bad focused applied awareness (shubha-ashubha upyoga). 'I am Pure Soul', is the focused pure applied awareness of the Self (shuddha upayog). With good-bad focused applied awareness (shubha-ashubha upayog) instillation in the worldly life occured.
Dada Bhagwan
#43. You're a little short on self-awareness. People who are always exacting right behaviour from other people tend to be that way.
Joseph Hansen
#44. We are like water, aren't we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too. And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.
Wally Lamb
#45. The feeling itself is the language your Higher Self listens to.
Raphael Zernoff
#46. People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#47. Could indicate the cocky self-awareness of a male in prime condition.
Michel Faber
#50. Your faith provides you focus and vision for your life. It is your true north compass and GPS of self-awareness and self-management. Your faith is your lens to focus on how your talents, skills, gifts, and abilities will allow you to live on purpose
Thomas Narofsky
#51. He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to conflict and a lifelong infatuation with hope, which had him dreaming more than doing
Chang-rae Lee
#52. There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
Robert Henri
#53. All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
Michel De Montaigne
#54. Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.
Deepak Chopra
#55. A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.
T.F. Hodge
#56. Healing is achieved through turning on the light of your soul and allowing it to shine.
Janet Gallagher Nestor
#57. Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.
As if I were not puzzled at myself!
Walt Whitman
#58. As the leaf takes its time finding the ground so must I.
Cory Basil
#59. Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to understand why you are the way you are and, most importantly, learn to love and accept yourself.
Robert Anthony
#60. When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
Abraham Verghese
#62. By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.
Lev Grossman
#63. Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.
David Quammen
#64. Tomorrow when you wake up, be aware of how you dress your thoughts and emotions, because at the end of the day no matter what you look like, if your inner being isn't beautiful, neither are you.
Nikki Rowe
#65. The self can only be realized, and the realization can only happen, out of personal experience.
Roshan Sharma
#66. Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.
Marcus Aurelius
#67. Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go 'Uh, I'm kind of an asshole.
Louis C.K.
#68. We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#71. The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self-reliant and totally self- sufficient. it is perfect.
Chris Prentiss
#73. Self-Empowerment is free to anyone who chooses to use it. It comes from within and nowhere else. You cannot buy it, borrow it, steal it or sell it. It is always available to you and never wears out. The only choice you have to make is whether or not you will use it.
Gary Hopkins
#75. Try seeing, feeling, and tasting the water you swim in the way a land animal might perceive it. You may find the experience fascinating -- and mind-expanding.
Erin Meyer
#76. Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.
Alexandra Robbins
#77. While there are many that journey who seek, not all that travel will find, for they are bound by what they have been taught and not of what they know."
- The Tapestry of Spirit
Erik Paul Rocklin
#78. Do not become self-absorbed, but become self-aware.
Abhijit Naskar
#79. IF YOU DON'T GO AFTER WHAT YOU WANT; YOU COULD SPEND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE SETTLING FOR WHAT YOU CAN GET
Mo Stegall
#80. You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#81. The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have.
Abhijit Naskar
#82. You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#83. Beautiful isn't something you become. It's something you realize you are.
Vironika Tugaleva
#84. There's just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It's not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it's that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don't see what you wish to see - or glimpse something that you wish weren't there.
Dean Koontz
#85. [I]t doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere. (xiii)
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#86. Naysayers are frightened by their own power.
T.F. Hodge
#87. Yes! I'm me! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I think! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!
Terry Pratchett
#88. Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.
Deepak Chopra
#89. Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you'll find something that is.
A.J. Darkholme
#90. The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#91. Why wait? So precious is this life - this gift - this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.
Jennifer DeLucy
#93. Giving a voice to your feelings is a necessary personal freedom.
Deborah Sandella
#94. To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?
Pascal Mercier
#95. Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us?
Ariana Carruth
#96. Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don't exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense; caution, our only friend.
A.J. Darkholme
#98. Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?
David Brooks
#99. Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.
Cheryl Strayed
#100. As we increase in our awareness and our integration of Self the process of integration grows and expands as we begin to incorporate the fullness of our nature, that of our spiritual nature or our Soul.
Genevieve
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