2,872 Quotes About Self-awareness

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.

Of what worth is self worth if it isn't worth much to anyone other than self? If knowledge cannot be lovingly & respectfully shared with those who lack?Acknowledge your worth, know its measure, then set it aside that one may not be consumed by conceit.Rest assured in the knowledge that self worth is not diminished one iota by being kind.

Only when you are broken into pieces can you realize who you are - what you are - a bolt of lightning, that once has its course set for a purpose, cannot be stopped even by the gods of the heavens.

What is inside, is also outside,

Sometimes our Biggest Nightmare turns out to be our Biggest Gift. And it all comes down to our attitude. Life will throw us curve balls and disappointments, even heartbreak. But ultimately we can choose if we're going to be Bitter or Better for the experience.

It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

Here we are, centuries down the pike in our cultural and scientific evolution, and we are still trying to figure out where the nothingness meets the something-ness. The problem is that, though science can now look into the subatomic world, it still cannot see deeply enough to uncover the depths of the human experience.

Consciousness says 'I am,' but it is the self that says 'I am this or that.