Self-Awareness Quotes and Proverbs

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
There's much insight to be gained during these times by aligning heart and mind. As we achieve alignment, the experience of new awareness will become tangible and alive. Now is the time to take that promise to heart. But having insights is different than acting on them. We must follow the heart and shape a better world for ourselves and the collective whole.

Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart
As you sincerely go for deeper levels of love, the results you'll have in well-being and increased quality of life will motivate you, leading you to a wider dimensional awareness. The results are so rewarding you can easily develop a passion for self-management.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
In the new days, once a critical mass of people have made a shift into heart awareness, life will be quite different for everyone. All of these benefits—and many more—are earned through systematically learning to focus on, listen to, and follow your heart.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
When emotions are managed by the heart, they heighten your awareness of the world around you and add sparkle to life. The result is new intelligence and a new view of life. Just be sincere in your efforts and appreciate the progress you make, not expecting to be free from unpleasant emotions all at once. Each success builds more power and excitement. It gets easier as you go. When long-standing emotional issues lose some of their intensity and importance, things won't bother you as much.

Robin Williams, comedian
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Anonymous
Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.

John Gottman, Ph.D. Author, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child
In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships.

Carl Sagan
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. .

Rabindranath Tagore
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

John Wesley
When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.

Margaret Thatcher
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Thanks to Maria Marquis
Thoreau
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

T. Starr King
The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.
thanks to Michele Rousseau

Buddha
As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Margot Fonteyn
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous.

Herman Melville
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

St. Francis of Assisi
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Richard Bach
We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks.

Anonymous
The more you know, the less you need to show.

Gandhi
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Sydney J. Harris
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

William Faulkner
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Kurt Vonnegut
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.