self-awareness Quotes

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.