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Self-awareness Quotes
"Your mind is an entire world, your heart is an entire cosmos, and your soul is an entire universe."
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"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
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"But mostly I just think I'am not the best person to demonstrate all the goodness humanity has to offer. I don't want you to be too disappointed when you realize that."
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"If only I could see myself from the same vantage point that I observe the world; I might judge my behavior and expressions more critically, and others less."
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"What you see, say, think, and believe about yourself affects your feelings, decisions, and actions."
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"In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color."
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"The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself."
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"Use time to discover who you are."
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"Thoughts can only hurt you with your permission, feelings can only wound you with your consent, experiences can only damage you with your authorization; life can only ruin you with your approval."
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"I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do."
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"The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler."
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"What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself."
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"Be yourself, nobody can do it better than you."
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"Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear yet...She was, after all, on her way to Shiz because she was smart. But there was more than one way to be smart."
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"One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer."
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"Are you like, a crazy person?I'm quite sure they will say so."
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"The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That's how you learn who you are."
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"Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!"
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"Seeing everything that goes on in your daily life, your daily activities - when you pick up a pen, when you talk, when you go out for a drive or when you are walking alone in the woods - can you with one breath, with one look, know yourself very simply as you are? When you know yourself as you are, then you understand the whole structure of man's endeavour, his deceptions, his hypocrisies, his search. To do this you must be tremendously honest with yourself throughout your being."
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"Do you know yourself?."
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"As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man."
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"Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!"
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"To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference."
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"Accept who are you and your uniqueness. Define your choices and believes."
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"Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong."
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"No, I'm afraid your overconfidence, as with most young men who dream of becoming successful, can quite quickly become the Achilles' heel of your continued mediocrity."
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"As long as one finds faults with the world, he won't be able to find anything about the Soul (Self). He who sees his own faults is the Soul (Self) himself!"
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"In afternoon if you close eyes it's doesn't mean there is dark outside and if you avoid or do not want see your wrong deeds and wrong character it's doesn't mean all Good in you."
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"Be yourself, be yourself."
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"See Your Expressions Through the Eyes of Others. Take the initiative to stand in front of a mirror and practice a wide range of emotions so that you can see what other people are seeing. Video tape yourself and watch your movements and your expressions. You can pick up on clues to what you need to fix and where you could improve your presentation."
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"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
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"If we reflect, we shall recognize."
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"Basic understanding of who were are is through Self Awareness. By understanding our thoughts we can dive deeper into them and get a better understanding of who we are in the process."
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"Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a product of my inadequacy but, rather, a product of my thoughts."
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"It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon."
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"As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others - and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer."
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"If knowing something got you where you needed to go, you'd be there already. Put your hand to your heart, take a deep breath in...listen to your heart. It knows."
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"We, ignorant of ourselves,Beg often our own harms, which the wise powersDeny us for our good; so find we profitBy losing of our prayers."
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"The mind becomes much more beautiful, when man could see his own weaknesses."
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"You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with."
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"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
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"Be true to what you feel in your heart."
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"When one sees his own faults, he will not have the time to see the others' faults."
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"Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings."
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"The reason for our limitation is only inside us."
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"All day long, no one is at fault for anything. Whatever faults we see; we see them because of our own defects."
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"Be yourself, that is all there is."
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"Never focus your attention on what the world has to say about you. Rather turn your focus inside and listen to what your inner voice has to say to you."
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"Be yourself."
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"Don't try to hurt anyone, you will not succeed because you can hurt only yourself."
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