Self-awareness Quotes

"It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dream of meeting your heart’s longing."

- Oriah

"To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"People shall know what to attack in you but remember they shall not know what to prevent in them"

- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"We all have a purpose in life, and when you find yours you will recognize it."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and, therefore, fallible; it makes our own short-comings more tenable."

- John Wooden

"Walking brings me back to myself."

- Laurette Mortimer

"Our bodies are gardens, our wills are our gardeners."

- William Shakespeare

"I’m about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That’s the distance my left ear is from my right."

- Ben Crenshaw

"As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic."

- James McGreevey

"I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library."

- Ray Bradbury

"Like food is to the body, self-talk is to the mind. Don’t let any junk thoughts repeat in your head."

- Maddy Malhotra

"I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man."

- Dwight L. Moody

"Mirrors are liars. They tell us what we expect to see."

- Susanna Fraser

"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life."

- James Allen

"A shy person who is afraid of the attention of others is not free of ego, but has an ambivalent ego that both wants and fears attention from others. The fear is that the attention may take the form of disapproval or criticism, that is to say, something that diminishes the sense of self rather than enhances it. So the shy person's fear of attention is greater than his or her need of attention. Shyness often goes with a self concept that is predominantly negative, the belief of being inadequate. Any conceptual sense of self – seeing myself as this or that is ego, whether predominantly positive (I am the greatest) or negative (I am no good). Behind every positive self concept is the hidden fear of not being good enough. Behind every negative self concept its the hidden desire of being the greatest or better than others. Behind the confident ego's feeling of and continuing need for superiority is the unconscious fear of inferiority. Conversely, the shy, inadequate ego that feels inferior has a strong hidden desire for superiority. Many people fluctuate between feelings of inferiority and superiority, depending on situations or the people they come into contact with. All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you. Why does the ego play roles? Because of one unexamined assumption, one fundamental error, one unconscious thought. That thought is: I am not enough. Other unconscious thoughts follow: I need to play a role in order to get what I need to be fully myself; I need to get more so that I can be more. But you cannot be more than you are because underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being. In form, you are and will always be inferior to some, superior to others. In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same."

- Eckhart Tolle

"If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?"

- Lois McMaster Bujold

"Consciousness is closer to you then you are to yourself"

- Meister Eckhart

"When thus the mind becomes completely silent, it shines with a new light and vibrates with new knowledge. It all comes spontaneously, you need only hold on to the 'I am'."

- Nisargadatta

"You are always seeking pleasure, avoiding pain, always after happiness and peace. Don't you see that it is your very search for happiness that makes you feel miserable? Try the other way: indifferent to pain and pleasure, neither asking, nor refusing, give all your attention to the level on which 'I am' is timelessly present. Soon you will realise that peace and happiness are in your very nature and it is only seeking them through some particular channels, that disturbs."

- Nisargadatta

"One of the things youre supposed to hold and be able to develop is divine pride, and learning to distinguish that from egoic pride is extremely imrportant, and once you actually figure that out thats graduation."

- Ken Wilber

"It is caffeine alone that sets my mind in motion. It is through beans of java that thoughts acquire speed, that hands acquire shakes, that shakes become a warning... I am...IN CONTROL...OF MY ADDICTION!"

- From the Minicon Graffiti Wall, 1989

""One who has drunk strong coffee not only appears more lively in the mirror, but also sees the image of himself more vividly.""

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Sometimes We Have To Go Deep Inside Ourselves To Solve Our Problems."

- Patrick

"Some People Are Meant To Be With People, And Others, Like Me, Are Just Different."

- Pigeon Man

"I'm not being lazy; I'm just in energy-saving mode."

"Running on caffeine and chaos."

"My wallet is like an onion, and opening it makes me cry."

"I used to think that I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."

"Maybe sometimes you have to lose who you were to find out who you are."

"Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour, and it can never be used against you."