Self awareness Quotes

"It is in dialogue and the sharing of ideas with others that we make sense of ourselves." "We are all routinely encouraged to become cynical, despairing and bitter; the trick is to tell the truth without falling into these traps." "The greatest threat to our happiness lies in the failure to appreciate the present moment." "The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free." "The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end." "Live from the heart of yourself." "The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise." "People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools." "Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening." "Part of what existence means to me is knowing the difference between what I am now and what I was then." "A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him" "Boredom is the root of all evil the despairing refusal to be oneself" "To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself" "The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes " "Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own."