Noel Coward Quotes

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

If you never lie to yourself, you'll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person.

You get to a point where you get tired of being stupid and selfish and not being honest with yourself.

The more you can be self-aware and honest about yourself, the more you can cultivate that in other people.

All the work I do is personal, so the good stuff and the bad stuff that you see in there is all good stuff and bad stuff that I have, and part of the journey, for me, has been to embrace these things that I find embarrassing about myself: my stubbornness, my ego, my maudlin-ness - these things that I see myself do, and I go, 'Oh, David, stop that!'

What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.

I guess it has to be healthy, you have to be honest with yourself and I think that's when ego is okay.

If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.

As we stop monitoring others' opinions, we connect with our heart's wisdom.

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.

We are all living this dance and it is clearly fraught with making choices. Lots of my choices are bad and that's normal. None of us are attractive at all times. What is attractive to me is authenticity.

Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.

I take deep breaths and be true to my heart.

No life is perfect; we all have our problems and issues, and I believe that it's good to be true to who you are.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.