Gretchen Rubin Quotes

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

This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.

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.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they're not self-aware, I think it's harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.

The key is your thoughts and feelings, and you have been holding the key in your hand all of your life.

Once you master how your own consciousness operates, anything can be desired and achieved.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

Know yourself to improve yourself.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

I want people to find their inner depth.

Spend time in your head and figure yourself out. Start taking note of all the things you do that you don't like, and then you're more conscious of it, and you learn.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

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.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.