Quotes About Self-awareness

I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you're in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it.

At 50, you have learnt to accept yourself, and that helps you also understand and accept your partner better.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Authenticity doesn't just mean you're not filtering what you're saying, it's about being able to know and access the best parts of yourself and bring them forward.

I feel like I've come off as an outspoken woman. Sometimes I think I've come off as confrontational. But I feel like it's been pretty fair. Those are parts of me.

I believe the more important thing is your mind and your heart. Those two things are the most ignored parts of our beings.

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.

I'm always painted as a party girl, which was true for my 20s. It's taken a long time to shake off that gobby, in-your-face image. I'm actually quite chilled out.

I thought that the older I got, that partying would change - and it has - in the way that now I know how to party.

Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Life would certainly be easier if we all came equipped with our own personal FAQ lists. When we meet someone, we could pass them a business card with the list on the back, and then step back and let them read before we tried to talk.

Because I just decided, if I'm jealous, it's in my hands. I shouldn't pass that off to anyone else.

I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.

I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

Like most of us, he had a large blind spot about his own faults.

When people who are actually creating a system start to see themselves as the source of their problems, they invariably discover a new capacity to create results they truly desire.

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

You will know your state of mind when you wash the dishes. Your care or your impatience; your attention or your distraction. You will see yourself, at that moment, clearly.

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.