Self Awareness Quotes

"We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience" "The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action" "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any" "Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard" "Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." "The world is my idea." "A man can be himself only so long as he is alone." "The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is" "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" "Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen" "Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it" "The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself." "Emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head – it is the unique intersection of both." "If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far." "The more man alienates himself from the world around him, the more he alienates himself also from his own inner world" "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self" "To be great, be whole; exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are into the smallest thing you do." "Freedom is the essence of self-consciousness." "The best books... are those that tell you what you know already." "Travel makes one modest You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world"