William Cowper Quotes

Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self-awareness.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

Know yourself to improve yourself.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

You change your life by changing your heart.

We must be engineers of souls.

After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted.

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

We are what our thoughts have made us

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.