Self Awareness Quotes - Page 4

Would he ever come back? He wondered. The water filled his ears with its own rush, and he was comforted by the realization that, in fact, he never left.

Diana Gabaldon

In a world filled with liars, some still seem surprised at the lengths to which some will go-yet we fear our own truth & so become numb to our own senses.

Selva Millheiser

Honest self-understanding liberates us from our stuck emotions.

C. Terry Warner

Knowing what environments are a good fit requires a person to know about themselves, in other words, to have self-awareness.

Joanie Connell

Remember that your role in this experience that we call life is quite significant! Never equate your significance to temporary stuff, or in comparison to others – you’re more than that!~Steele Steele

Stormie Steele

The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.

Leland Val Van De Wall

The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.

A.J. Darkholme

I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence

Paul Morabito

Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.

A.J. Darkholme

We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change.

A.J. Darkholme

Man is the question he asks about himself, before any question has been formulated. It is, therefore, not surprising that the basic questions were formulated very early in the history of mankind.

Paul Tillich

Sometimes the heart can hear what the ears do not.

A.J. Darkholme

Sometimes the boxes we’re put in fit. Other times, we find ourselves shoved into places too confining for our growing sense of self.

Sarah Hackley

As a leader, 1st, work on yourself- increase your self-awareness. There shouldn't be any other urgent agenda than this. Get enlightened! Know very well who you're including your strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots!

Assegid Habtewold

Her Brooklyn accent only comes out when she's angry. This is the best part....I pick at my pancakes while she tells me, simply, "It's ok to change your mind." About a feeling, a person, a promise of love. I can't stay just to avoid contradicting myself. I don't have to watch him cry.

Lena Dunham

The question is not 'Am I a leader?' - the question is 'What kind of leader am I?

Steve Knox

Sometimes what you've been looking for, is what you are.

Damond Jiniya

In that hurry to achieve, I've left little time for self-reflection. And I'm not sure I'm ready for it.

Cindy McCormick Martinusen

Conquering fear didn’t mean not being afraid, it meant being afraid of something and doing it anyway. It meant saying no to fear-no you can’t rule me, no you can’t hold me back, no you can’t keep me from the things I want the most.

Laura Kaye

Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?

Margaret Atwood

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

Joseph Campbell

First of all I express sincerity. There's also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn to laugh about themselves. I mean, the situation is so serious that the people could go crazy because of it. They need to smile and realize how ridiculous everything is. A race without a sense of humor is in bad shape. A race needs clowns. In earlier days people knew that. Kings always had a court jester around. In that way he was always reminded how ridiculous things are. I believe that nations too should have jesters, in the congress, near the president, everywhere.....You could call me the jester of the Creator. The whole world, all the disease and misery, it's all ridiculous.

Sun Ra

If you have a fight with yourself, who can win?

Daniel J. Siegel

Driving in someone elses lane is easy, but remaining in your own seems to be the most challenging self discipline. No matter how big the highway, imagine yours is a singular road traveled in one direction - you're own.

T.F. Hodge

Culture is like a giant mirror which enables us to see who we are more clearly. The various facets of a culture also provide us with the means to change what we do not like in the mirror, and retain what we cherish most.

Dr Robin Lincoln Wood

Our inner wisdom is persistent, but quiet. It will always whisper, but it will never stop knocking at your door.

Vironika Tugaleva

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now.

Jo Walton

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them.

Peter Singer

You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.

Stanley Hauerwas

Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead.

Bonnie Marcus

To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference.

Vironika Tugaleva

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

Theodore Roethke

Bad friends are those who make you cry.Good friends are those who understand why you're crying.Best friends are those who do everything to stop you from crying.

Asi Wudu

No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.

Yukio Mishima

Self-contemplation is a curseThat makes an old confusion worse.

Theodore Roethke

I am a new universe beginning to expand.

Scott Service

self-awareness: the ability to realize what we are doing as we do it, and understand why we are doing it.

Kelly McGonigal

For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not - Heaven help us _ all having lodgement at one time or another in the human spirit? Some say two thousand and fifty two. So that it is the most usual thing in the world for a person to call, directly they are alone...Come, come! I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another. But it is not altogether plain sailing either...these selves of which we are built up, one on top of another, as plates are piled up on a waiter's hand, have attachments elsewhere, sympathies, little constitutions and rights of their own...so that one will only come if it is raining....another if you can promise it a glass of wine - and so on...

Virginia Woolf

What distinguished him in a moment of crisis was his self-command.

T.J. Stiles

The snowball of selfishness quickly becomes an avalanche.

Angela Lynne Craig

Ani saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare.

Shannon Hale

Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God’s majesty.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

[T]he only thing that has power over you is what you can't say, even to yourself.

Naomi Jackson

We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed

Rebecca Makkai

In brief: consciousness is a phenomenon in the zone of evolution. This world lights up to itself only where or only inasmuch as it develops, procreates new forms. Places of stagnancy slip from consciousness; they may only appear in their interplay with places of evolution.If this is granted it follows that consciousness and discord with one's own self are inseparably linked up, even that they must, as it were, be proportional to each other. This sounds a paradox, but the wisest of all times and peoples have testified to confirm it. Men and women for whom this world was lit in an unusually light of awareness, and who by life and word have, more than others, formed and transformed that work of art which we call humanity, testify by speech and writing or even by their lives that more than others have they been torn by the pangs of inner discord. Let this be a consolation to him who also suffers from it. Without it nothing enduring has ever been begotten.

Erwin Schrödinger

Redefining moments offer us the opportunity to perpetually re-invent ourselves, and as long as we occupy a human body, these opportunities will continue to present themselves. You were born to be you, to unfold the truth of who you are. The same is true for everyone else. Every moment has the potential to be a redefining moment when we utilize the opportunity to look more deeply into the mystery of the true Self and learn how to actualize Its qualities in our daily lives. The goal is to increase our awareness that, irrespective of where we are or what we are doing, there stands before us a door in every present moment that, when consciously opened, invites us to step into a deeper knowing of who we truly are. In other words, every encounter (chance or otherwise), event, or circumstance, be it good or bad, right or wrong, happy or sad, is a portal to a redefining moment and who we will choose to be in that situation. The question to consider is, will we be consciously present enough in the moment to recognize the opening when it occurs and step through the door, or will our mind be too full of distractions?

Dennis Merritt Jones

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

Pride is not looked at as a weakness, though it is the epitome of it. You might hear 'oh that poor alcoholic probably had an awful upbringing' but you never hear any sympathy for a prideful person, 'poor thing is probably horribly insecure, maybe we should validate him as a person to help him out.' That's what you should hear, but you won’t. What I will say though, is that the key to curing pride is not so much in loving others more, but actually in loving yourself more. Loving your neighbor as yourself does no good if you don’t love yourself.

Michael Brent Jones

I’d like to share with you a parable: the parable of Bob the Angel.A girl was walking down a darkly lit city street late at night. A man jumped out from the shadows and attacked her, suddenly she was suffocating and disoriented as hands clasped around her neck and the force of his attack started to push her down. She tried to yell as she struggled to pull his arms from her neck while she crumpled backwards to the ground, “God . . . help me!” The next thing she remembers—just as the fear consumed her, and right as she disappeared into the misery and despair of helplessness—was a loud crash and an explosion of glass which rained down upon her and her attacker. The assailant’s lifeless body was suspended above her, held from collapsing on her by an unknown force, and then pulled away from hovering over her and dropped onto the pavement beside her. She opened her eyes in the faint shadowy light, to see black matted hair and a long, black beard framing the eyes of a man. The smell of alcohol on his breath would have knocked her out if the adrenaline was not still trilling through her veins. There he stood, God’s angel, off-kilter and drunk, with a broken whiskey bottle in his hand. “You probably shouldn’t be walking through here this late at night,” was all he said as he turned away.“Wait! What’s your name?” she asked, still stunned half sitting up on the ground.All she heard as he walked away was his trailing voice calling, “Bob’s as good as any. . . .” An angel is a messenger, and sometimes we only want letters sent in white envelopes with beautiful gold print, when sometimes a simple “no” on the back of a gum wrapper is what we are offered. Every postcard from heaven does not come with a picture of the sunset there, nor should it. If it is an answer we want, an answer we will get. As far as pretty postcards, there are many others willing to send us that. If not harps and gold-tipped wings, what then is the mark of an angel? An answer which pierces your soul, and which inspires a question that invites you to look outside of yourself and up to God.

Michael Brent Jones

Peace is just around the corner, the only problem is the world is round! (created this on 9-11-01 after the WTC crash.)

David Calleo SELF

That is normal...To be afraid. Do not let anyone tell you any different. No one can ever say that what you feel is right or wrong, or pointless or unworthy of your time. That is a truth for you to decide. Ignorance is bliss, but there comes a time when you must open your eyes and face the truth—when you must be honest with yourself.

Kelseyleigh Reber

There are only two kinds of people who can drain your energy: those you love, and those you fear. In both instances it is you who let them in. They did not force their way into your aura, or pry their way into your reality experience.

Anthon St. Maarten

He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everybody he loved.

Cassandra Clare

If you can’t remember when you last basked in your own glow, it means you’re overdue.

Gina Greenlee

It is good to know one's enemy.It is better to know one's self.

Max Hawthorne

Ordinary life is fascinating when viewed with extraordinary perspective.

Angela Howell

You should not seek forgiveness after an unkind act. The act was done on purpose. You must first understand why the act occurred and then move forward.

Lloyd A. Green

Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends.

Shannon L. Alder

The more things you have in common with the normal population the more you are not being yourself.

Ray Mancini

The feeling of 'turning into your dad' is nothing compared to the realisation that your son is turning into you.

Andy Graham

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