Self Awareness Quotes

"Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be." "We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree." "The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. " "A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world." "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism." "I'm not Mother Teresa but I'm not Charles Manson, either" "Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?" "I tried to pay attention but attention paid me" "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live" "You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you" "The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone." "Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them." "When you learn to navigate and manage your mind, you can navigate and manage life" "The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching." "When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others" "We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves" "The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept" "The first step on anyone’s journey to personal growth is to realize how limiting our perceptions are"