Quotes About Self-awareness

Heavy stuff, I know. I think I've finally graduated from the don't-knows that don't know to the don't-knows that do. Barrons had security cameras in the garage. He'd just given me a tape of myself breaking into it.

I was wrong. I wasn't poised between stupid and testing my limits. Miles of uncharted stupid stretched on both sides of the line on which I stood.

Barrons laughed again. "And there, my dear Fio, you make one of Womankind's greatest mistakes: Falling in love with a man's potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it. Stop pining for the man you think I could be -- and take a good, long, hard look at the one I am.

this is chesters mac.i gave her what she wanted.i give them all what they want.i'm not responsible for how fucking soulless their wants are. RYODAN- BURNED

Sometimes I feel like I'm looking at someone else," he said. "Sometimes it seems like I'm getting further away

What you need is some balance in your life: to know when to say no and when to say yes, how to ask for help as easily as you give it, when to let other people live with the consequences of their choices, how to be honest with yourself (always) and forthright and direct with other people (most of the time), and why it's important to give up striving to be perfect and accept your perfectly imperfect self.

Wear your skeleton on the inside out, and keep your insect heart secret.

That summer Nal was fourteen and looking for excuses to have extreme feelings about himself.

Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself.

My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly.

A lot of the pain you are dealing with right now is really just your thoughts.

When you realize how much you're worth, You'll stop giving people discounts.

Anger is a boomerang.

View your life with kindsight. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, 'What was I thinking?' pause and ask the kinder question: 'What was I learning?

View life with kindness and insight. Don't beat yourself up for things that happened in the past. Though some past situations may make you wonder why you did the things you did, stop to breathe and ask the better question: 'What did I learn?

And I began to realize that ultimately I was responsible for my own happiness, that blaming other people was counterproductive.

We all make choices, Miss Szarka. And if it doesn't work out the way we wanted it to, we can spend a lifetime blaming ourselves or blaming others. Either way, we've spent a lifetime blaming instead of a lifetime doing other things...I think the possibilities for second chances are everywhere if we just look hard enough." Eve

You'd better clean up your own backyard before you start talkin' trash." Because I would bet money—and I'm not a betting person—that each one of those women has something in their closets they'd rather not air. Everybody does. Especially those who are always eager to cast the first stone.

asking for help doesn't mean you're weak. It means you're strong enough to know you can't handle it all on your own.

Choosing is about assessing what has the best chance of achieving your goal based on some combination of what you know and what's unclear. Knowing yourself – your goals, your values, your needs – is a level of self-awareness that creates the most solid foundation possible for making choices.

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How can you know you're a good person if your life has been nothing but plain sailing?

I haven't even read everything I wrote.

We must all continuously recapture ourselves from indecision.