Self Awareness Quotes

"When we seek the gaze of another, it isn’t always our partner we are turning to—it’s the other in ourselves." "Day by day, what you do is who you become" "Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you." "I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit" "If I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something" "He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another" "What we see is not what we see but what we are." "If you are able to look yourself in the mirror every day with the decisions that you make, that's where power starts." "I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen" "The ultimate dragon is within you" "The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely" "The only truths are personal truths" "I am not jealous of what came before me" "It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself" "You can make yourself love, not like way back but always I seem to know I am an exception" "My friend, my friend, I was born doing reference work in sin, and born confessing it." "When you have clarity of values, you don’t have to have consistency in everything else." "All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate." "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted" "The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt"