Quotes About Self-awareness

it doesn't matter to a person when he is in a hall of mirrors — he himself knows he is the one who is real. The confusion is for the onlookers.

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

I remember too much. But don't worry, Don Sombra. People like me have an infinite ability to forgive themselves.

In short, I was constantly receiving some fresh mortification, so that I hardly passed a day in quiet.

Talk about what you know and you won't get so angry

It's a funny thing that people are always quite ready to admit if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.

Ultimately, who we are can't be hidden. But here's the deal: when we face the worst that's in us, somehow we become better than we are - better than we ever thought we could be.

So he found it a relief and a delight to be treated with something less than royal respect. Meg's shafts of wit were never cruel, and she aimed them most often at herself. Trevyn had seen her with the wolves; he knew her courage. Her merciless honesty concerning her own shortcomings was a different kind of courage, he thought, and he admired her for it.

I had learned to trust the peculiar workings of my heart and mind

People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)

Mum spent a lot of time in my formative years gently reminding me that people don't think about us nearly as much as we think they do, because they're all busy worrying what people are thinking about them.

I'm not some sort of pallid romantic who insists on being loved for my shining inner being. My inner being is exceptionally cranky and I often don't want her company myself.

I've been taught any number of ways to manage anger, and they really work. What she's never been able to teach me is how to want to manage it. So I go on seething and raging and knowing the whole time that it's my own fault, because I do know how to stop.

She says it's too easy to call people evil instead of their choices, and that lets people justify making evil choices, because they convince themselves that it's okay because they're still good people overall, inside their own heads.

My heart broke, but I was not a young girl anymore, afraid of being trapped behind a door forever. I knew the door was safety, I knew the door would not always be closed, and I did not let her out.

Angry, I think. I didn't remember ever being angry before. Anger had always seemed pointless to me, a dog circling after its own tail.

I couldn't help knowing she would have told me off for giving him the least encouragement, in the strongest terms possible for her, and also that she'd be absolutely right: I hadn't any business agreeing to be with someone who told me in all sincerity that I was his only hope of happiness in the world, at least not until he'd sorted his own head out and diversified.

A robber who steals a knife and cuts himself cannot cry out against the woman who kept it sharp." He

I felt as though I were pretending to be grown-up.

Oh, who am I lying to? My supply of grace wouldn't overflow an acorn cap.

My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, Please leave your foolishness at home. But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

Women are told for so long that our feelings—our internal sensations of pain, pleasure, joy, sadness, or anger—are too much, or wrong, or bad. So eventually we can't stop thinking and thinking about these problems, trying to think them out, but we stop feeling our feelings about them.

It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.