Quotes About Self-awareness

which in turn could lead to a breakdown in cognitive integrity and difficulty in distinguishing self from nonself. 4 We need some sort of gating, and some control over gating, in order to function within the sea of sensory communications in which we are embedded.

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

There are two types of liers...those that lie to others, and those that lie to themselves.

We all face a choice between freedom and grief. The former requires not thinking so much of yourself you forget what road you're on. Modesty is a requirement if you're walking a long way.

She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.

3   See yourself becoming lucid. As you continue to focus on your intention to remember to recognize the next time you are dreaming, imagine that you are back in the dream from which you just awakened. Imagine that this time you recognize that you are dreaming.

T]hose who insist they've got their 'shit together' are usually standing in it at the time. (16)

The person you like the least is the person you need the most.

We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.

we judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior. This is why, as we'll discuss later, one of the fastest ways to restore trust is to make and keep commitments—even very small commitments—to ourselves and to others.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

He was too many things at once - a boy, a man, and everything in between - and the differing parts of himself seldom came into balance. She found him attractive in that way. Yet the perception saddened her: she herself wasn't too many things, but too few.

Soy lo que quieras ver. Cada persona ve algo diferente. ¿Qué es lo que ves tú?

Humility, if it comes at all, almost always comes too late.

When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.

What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.

The tragedy is that what you disapprove of in others is the very thing you disapprove of in yourself.

When you stop blaming others for where you are in life, that is when you can start to manifest your dream life!

A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life.

Don't run from your weakness, you will only give it strength.

If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem.

When you are drowned by your sorry state, and you feel as if you are carried away from the road that leads to your desires, you should know that you are the one responsible for being led away from the right path.