Self awareness Quotes

"If I become complacent and let my guard down now, I'll be broken." "He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts" "Too much of our lives takes place in the head, in memory or imagination, in speculation, in projection, in abstraction." "The more you see yourself and the more you see yourself in others, the more you’ll be able to really love others." "Until we find ourselves it is impossible to find peace." "The only zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the zen you bring up there." "Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?" "Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath." "Wherever you go, there you are." "We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves" "When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write a brave new ending" "If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it" "Each time we make a decision we are turning the central part of ourselves into something a little different than it was before" "Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have" "Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it"