2,872 Quotes About Self-awareness

People who lack confidence have a problem giving compliments.

[O]ur own bodies are changing every second. Yet we take the body to be our Self; and, speaking in terms of it, we say, “I am hungry” or “I am lame”; “I am black” or “I am white.” These are all just the conditions of the body. We touch the truth when we say, “My body aches,” implying the body belongs to us and that therefore we are not that. (87)

There's a precisely fine line between ego and self-respect and the line is not actually hard to find.

Preparing for the worst brings closer to the best.

When you get hit with a rock that wasn't throw at you, maybe you should self-reflect about the space you have chosen to occupy.

Sometimes your ego is your enemy when it comes to self-development.

But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like?Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.

There is no such thing as mental health awareness, there is only awareness. Awareness breeds health, whereas callousness breeds more suffering.

If you lack confidence it doesn't matter how many people compliment you it will never be enough.