Quotes About Self-awareness

What really stopped me was that there was no way to try out for Mensa without looking conceited.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

Politics is what a man does in order to conceal what he is and what he himself does not know.

I know who I am. Bloody hell, I'm getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, 'cos if I'm not, I have no idea who I'm paying for.

You are not responsible for all the things that happen to you, but you are completely in control of your attitude and your reactions to them. If you feel annoyance, fear, or disappointment, these feelings are cause by you and must be dug out like a weed. Study where they came from, accept them, and then let them go. If you let outside pressures determine how you feel and what you do, you have just abdicated your job as CEO of your own life.

Some philosophers have made a virtue of talking to themselves; perhaps because they felt that there was nobody else worth talking to. I fear that the practice of philosophizing on this somewhat exalted plane may be a symptom of the decline of rational discussion. No doubt God talks mainly to Himself because He has no one worth talking to. But a philosopher should know that he is no more godlike that any other man. (pp xx)

Limitations, boundaries, comfort zones, knowing when to stop, the point beyond which we do not go without hurting or getting hurt. All are created equal in order to keep us from destroying others and ourselves in the endless pursuit of happiness. Without a few basic guidelines for living happily ever after, the capacity to get lost, seriously hurt, or killed greatly magnifies.

Finding your best self and being that person is the end result of getting some insight. To be or not to be is always the question. If you don't find your best self, others will find many accommodating selves for you, often yielding sad, sometimes disastrous consequences.

In an abused child's pure intent to make things right for everyone around him as he is growing up, he finds himself taking care of others at the expense of his own feelings and needs. Consequently, the child has no identity of his own. This is what is known as co-dependency.

The feelings and thoughts are at war. The feeling and thinking need to get together—to be integrated so they become one. No matter what your challenges are or how many you have, they can all be addressed with the Script and healing can begin.

How do you help someone who doesn't recognize they have a brain illness? It's not their fault the brain can't inform itself that something's gone haywire.

For my part, seventeen years after my first PhD coursework, I still feel ill at ease with my grasp of many issues, and I am fairly confident that this is not just a question of limited intellect.

Everything you do in life, whether it's good or bad, makes you who you are. Don't maybe your decisions to death because you can't change them.

never let your emotions override your intellect!

My name is Sahil," he says as he looks up. "Someone told me it means leader.

He targets women who need help of some kind, then offers it to them. In the end, the only person he's helping is himself." Molly wiped away the wetness on her cheeks. "Thank you for saying that. In my heart, I know it's true. I feel like such a fool.

Don't resist pain. ...when you feel sad or angry or afraid, let yourself feel it.

You must use your mind and not let it use you.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.

Never fuck anyone you wouldn't want to be.

We just want to identify the "real" freaks, so we can feel closer to normal. In reality, not a single one of us is so magically normative as to claim the right to separate out the freaks from everyone else. We are all freaks to someone. Maybe even—if we're honest—to ourselves.

Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.