Best Self Awareness Wisdom
410 Self Awareness quotes by 261 unique authors
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To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your…
— August Wilson
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What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… We need this;…
— Donald Miller
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
— Anthony de Mello
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You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.
— Cassandra Clare
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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish…
— Rollo May
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I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The final mystery is oneself.
— Oscar Wilde
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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
— Oscar Wilde
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.
— Irvin D. Yalom
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You think of yourself as a citizen of the universe. You think you belong to this world of dust and matter. Out of this dust…
— Rumi
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To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to…
— Garth Stein
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How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his…
— Jonah Lehrer
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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,…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.
— Ellen DeGeneres
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Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a…
— Don DeLillo
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
— Rumi
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Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
— David Allen
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Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
— Don DeLillo
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A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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The primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which…
— Sean Covey
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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…
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is…
— Jonathan Tropper
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
— Laozi
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