Self Awareness Quotes - Page 7

• Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality

  Alan D. Eames

  Beer, Self, Joy

  Alan D. Eames (2014). “The Secret Life of Beer!: Exposed: Legends, Lore & Little-Known Facts”, p.15, Storey Publishing

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• What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator.

  Donald Miller

  Dream, Selfish, Mean

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• Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.

  Mark Twight

  Success, Meaningful, Hard Work

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• Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.

  Virginia Woolf

  Daughter, Mother, Baby

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• Post-​wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-​pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-​absorption without self-​awareness.

  Leslie Jamison

  Sarcastic, Hurt, Clever

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• Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.

  David Quammen

  Self, Meat, Being Me

  David Quammen (2004). “Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind”, p.3, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our Circle of Influence to shape much of our lives by default. We reactively live the scripts handed to us by family, associates, other people's agendas, the pressures of circumstance - scripts from our earlier years, from our training, our conditioning.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, Years, Circles

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• It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.

  Vernon Howard

  Reflection, Trying, Useless

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• The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'

  Confucius

  Song, Teaching, Thinking

  Confucius, Arthur Waley (1949). “The Analects of Confucius”, Routledge

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• Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.

  Andrew Mason

  Listening, Saint, Woe

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• The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

  Confucius

  Motivation, Army, Men

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Opposites, Circles

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.39, Tuttle Publishing

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• He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

  Laozi

  Clever, Knowledge, Hypocrisy

  Laozi (1982). “Tao te ching”, Coronet Books

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• The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change.

  William E. Rees

  Inspiring, Intelligent, Self

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• In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

  Stephen Covey

  Independent, Self Confidence, Decisions We Make

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.

  Bhikkhu Analayo

  Honesty, Self Esteem, Deception

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• The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Stronger, Majority, Minorities

  "The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard" by Soren Kierkegaard, pt. 5, sct. 3, no 128, 1850.

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• The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

  Clarence Day

  Self, Justice, Diversity

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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• Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.

  M. Scott Peck

  Truth, Pain, Hate

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• Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

  Charles Stross

  Emotional, Self, Brilliant

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.439, Penguin

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• Suppose I grant that pigs and dogs are self-aware to some degree, and do have thoughts about things in the future. That would provide some reason for thinking it intrinsically wrong to kill them - not absolutely wrong, but perhaps quite a serious wrong. Still, there are other animals - chickens maybe, or fish - who can feel pain but don't have any self-awareness or capacity for thinking about the future. For those animals, you haven't given me any reason why painless killing would be wrong, if other animals take their place and lead an equally good life.

  Peter Singer

  Dog, Pain, Good Life

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• I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains itself unchanged. I mean a world that evolves, as life on earth has evolved for three billion years, toward ever greater diversity, elegance, beauty, self-awareness, interrelationship, and spiritual realization.

  Donella Meadows

  Spiritual, Moving, Mean

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• Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.

  Barnett Newman

  Dream, Communication, Men

  Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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• Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation of the heart; and invoking with an absence of self-awareness because of absorption in the Invoked is the invocation of the Self - this is the hidden invocation!

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Heart, Names, Presence Of Mind

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• In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Inspirational, Knowing, Mind

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