Quotes About Self-awareness

To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

The secret to becoming unbreakable is realizing that you are already broken. We all are.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?

I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.

Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.

Stay in your own lane. Comparison kills creativity and joy.

When I let go of trying to be everything to everyone, I had much more time, attention, love, and connection for the important people in my life.

I assumed that people weren't doing their best so I judged them and constantly fought being disappointed, which was easier than setting boundaries. Boundaries are hard when you want to be liked and when you are a pleaser hellbent on being easy, fun, and flexible.

Healthy striving is self-focused: How can I improve? Perfectionism is other-focused: What will they think? Perfectionism is a hustle.

How much we know ourselves is extremely important but how we treat ourselves is the most important.

Living BIG (boundaries, integrity, and generosity).

When we own our stories, we avoid being trapped as characters in stories someone else is telling.

Stillness is not about focusing on nothingness; it's about creating a clearing. It's opening up an emotionally clutter-free space and allowing ourselves to feel and think and dream and question.

What we know matters, but who we are matters more.

When we pretend that we can avoid vulnerability we engage in behaviors that are often inconsistent with who we want to be.

In a world where perfectionism, pleasing, and proving are used as armor to protect our egos and our feelings, it takes a lot of courage to show up and be all in when we can't control the outcome. It also takes discipline and self-awareness to understand what to share and with whom. Vulnerability is not oversharing, it's sharing with people who have earned the right to hear our stories and our experiences. Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.

The heart of compassion is really acceptance. The better we are at accepting ourselves and others, the more compassionate we become. Well, it's difficult to accept people when they are hurting us or taking advantage of us or walking all over us. This research has taught me that if we really want to practice compassion, we have to start by setting boundaries and holding people accountable

You either walk into your story and own your truth, or you live outside of your story, hustling for your worthiness.

We can't selectively numb emotion. Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Sometimes when we dare to walk into the arena the greatest critic we face is ourselves.

how often we all try to solve problems by doing more of what's not working—just doing it harder, grinding it out longer. We'll do anything to avoid the lowest of the low—self-examination.

that imposter or phony feeling at work or school rarely has anything to do with our abilities, but has more to do with that fearful voice inside of us that scolds and asks, "Who do you think you are?