Self Awareness Quotes

"Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded." "All that we are is the result of what we have thought." "Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people." "As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed." "Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things." "It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." "Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox." "The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves." "It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one’s own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one’s own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice." "It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am." "Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise." "I said I was ‘The Greatest,’ I never said I was ‘The Smartest!’" "You are as old as you think you are." "Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man." "My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am."