Top 1200 Self-Awareness Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.

When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.

You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

When your alarm goes off and you jump out of bed, what is the nature of the mind in that moment? Are you already like, "oh my God," your calendar pops into your mind and you're driven already, or can you take a moment and just lie in bed and just feel your body breathing. And remember, "oh yeah, brand new day and I'm still alive." So, I get out of bed with awareness, brush my teeth with awareness. When you're in the shower next time check and see if you're in the shower.

The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter and point. Every concept and content, every notion and idea, of every spiritual movement, of every vibration, intellectual and emotional, from the immediate and general to the distant and detailed, from matters lofty, spiritual, and ethical according to their outward profile, to matters practical, obligatory, seemingly frightening, and forceful, and at the same time complex and full of content and great mental exertion - all together become known by a supernal holy awareness.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.

When you get your self realization or your second birth you become entitled to an awareness by which you can find out the roots of everything. You can find out the roots why people get sick, you can find out why there are incurable diseases, you can find out why there are psychological problems, you can find out why there are moral crisises, you can find out why there are political problems, why there are economic problems.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.