#self-awareness

"He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself."

"I am not a little bit of many things; but I am the sufficient representation of many things. I am not an incompletion of all these races; but I am a masterpiece of the prolific. I am an entirety, I am not a lack of anything; rather I am a whole of many things. God did not see it needful to make me generic. He thinks I am better than that."

"I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way."

"The great thing about falling apart, is that you get to decide how to put yourself back together. Make good choices."

"Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge."

"I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe."

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

"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."

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

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

"I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right."

"For years I was deathly afraid of my own weaknesses, but when I closed my eyes and let myself be vulnerable to them it allowed miracles to take place. Miracles that were only alive when I accessed my BLIND faith."

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

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

"She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world."

"Education is the greatest gift to enlightenment."

"The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently."

"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."

"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."

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."