#self-awareness

"The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance."

"It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon."

"Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life."

"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."

"Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!"

"Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance."

"We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful."

"Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you."

"Sometimes you wish the world would be a better place and sometimes you wish the world was a better place. Only the great understanding of the difference of the time between the past and present moment will make it a better place."

"A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute."

"It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you."

"There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power."

"First knowledge is the knowledge of God."

"Enlightenment is the key to empowerment."

"The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore."

"You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!"

"I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate."

"Being a Dream Girl is never going to be about what you look like or how much you weigh. After all, our physical appearances are just reflections of our inner worlds. What makes you a Dream Girl is your emotional sensitivity, your self-awareness, and your ability to communicate who you are effectively and compassionately in the world."

"Indomitable soul encompasses a beautiful heart and a beautiful smile."

"A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit."