Quotes About Self-awareness

If that is what you will become, then so be it. It is what you are.

He is coming into bloom, remembering himself, no longer denying who and what he is.

you have the right to be satisfied with what you have and with what you are right now.

We don't want to eliminate the ego completely. Otherwise we'd be wandering around the house each morning, drinking coffee for hours, saying, 'Who the hell am I?' We need the ego to sustain a sense of identity.

All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.

You know when you are on the highway and you stop at a rest area and there's a big map of the region and a big red dot that says YOU ARE HERE? That's anger. That's what anger can tell you. It can tell you where you are.

Anger could be like pain: you think it's your ankle that hurts when it's actually your knee. Anger could be referred.

Because we fear other people's reactions and don't know how to respond, we allow them to violate our limits and boundaries.

If I could identify one core problem about the world, it's that we've been taught to distrust ourselves. SHAKTI GAWAIN

We all need to feel understood and connected to ourselves and to others.

In order to stop giving ourselves away and have fair and open relationships with others, we must learn how to communicate our limits and boundaries honestly and effectively.

When we become response-able—that is, when we learn to choose our responses freely and consciously—we are free to build a life of continuing growth and increasing happiness.

Pace yourself in your work and commitments. Nobody is indispensable. And when you get sick, honor your body by giving it the rest and medical attention that it's asking for.

We need to accept our anger, fear, or whatever undisclosed feelings we have, no matter how socially unacceptable they seem.

Being able to choose to act differently, even while feeling the old way, may be the most liberating growth you can accomplish.

If your thinking isn't leading your life toward healthy attitudes and positive feelings, you can choose to change the station.

Hiding our fears behind compulsive behavior of any kind severely limits our ability to be ourselves.

Remember, feelings are neither right nor wrong—they just are. When you can accept your feelings, you'll be able to risk being outwardly honest. If you criticize and judge yourself for your feelings, you'll close down, hide, and relate less honestly to both yourself and others.

We get off the guilt train by reminding ourselves that we are not responsible for other people's happiness.

The first and most basic step for any change or growth, no matter how small, is to know what we feel, how we think, and how we would like to alter our lives.

Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become one himself. And when you stare for a long time into an abyss, the abyss stares back into you.

I've been a bit worried about my maleness lately, somewhere along the line I seem to have picked up too many female hormones.

I am very unhappy and have once again turned to great literature for solace. It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.

Measured my 'thing'. It was eleven centimetres.