Best Self Awareness Quotes

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

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.’

Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.

It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise.

It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.

Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence

You have to know that your real home is within.

Awareness of the self is more acutely at the heart of things than it has ever been before. On the foundation of self-awareness alone rest all our hopes for a new politics, a new society, a revitalized life. If we do not genuinely know ourselves, the void will now, at last, surely rise up to meet us.

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I’ll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

I don’t recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

I would love to meet Martin Luther King. His fearless attitude, leadership, and self-awareness changed our world.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

Though we can’t always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best interests. We are always being guided in a way better than we know ourselves.

Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone’s tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.

Self-awareness includes awareness of your body.

He who is contented is rich.

Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn’t scary. It doesn’t imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of the body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships – not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.

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.

Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.

The joy of being a consumer is that it doesnt require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.