Quotes About Self-awareness

I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not.

At this point of my life, I'm 32 and I feel sexier than ever because you know what you want.

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.

I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.

It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.

Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

Do not tell me you don't know you're pretty. If so, I'm about to lose all faith in mankind. You don't want to be responsible for that.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I'm half ground, that I don't want to be a sausage after all.

When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.

Just don't do things that depress you. I realized if it depresses me, then I just don't want to get close to it. If it brings me down, I just really can't get into it.

We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit.

All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.

Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.

I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.

Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness.

I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.

I live my life with a lot of integrity based on what I want for my life and who I am.

The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.

I think the hardest thing is to know what you want, ask for it, and then to stop talking.

If you don't know how you feel, you won't know what you want.

There is only one person who can ever know exactly what you want and truly make you happy - that person is you!

I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure theyre all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.

Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.