2,872 Quotes About Self-awareness

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.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood... I was raving, if only to myself.

It was almost painful to be different.

Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other.

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Self-awareness of one’s faults, far from being the first step to growth, is very often the second foot in the mud.

Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making.

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.