Quotes About Self-awareness

As you get older no doubt you'll change automatically, just like I did. You will learn all the tricks. You will dress much better, and talk much more, and listen much less. And you'll start to realise that it never does one much good to take anything too seriously at all.

Of all the mind games you could play in life, the most important is this one: always tell the truth to others and to yourself.

archetypes are the psychic lenses through which we view ourselves and the world around us.

The lesson for the Intellectual is never to invest so much of yourself in any situation that you are willing to compromise your integrity in order to maintain the illusion. Once that cycle begins, it is nearly impossible to release yourself from it. The Intellectual frees herself from the shadow by knowing who she is at all times and living from her truth.

This love is the essential key to finding the happiness that we are convinced lies outside of ourselves but that spiritual texts remind us is only found within. Too many people are frightened of knowing themselves, convinced that self-knowledge would mean living alone, without their current friends and partners.

realize the importance of the words of Polonius, "To thine own self be true." For without personal power, life is a frightening, painful experience.

Una de las mayores fuentes de sufrimiento es traicionarse a uno mismo: sentir o pensar de un modo y actuar de otro, sabiendo perfectamente que estás yendo en contra de ti mismo.

For how long have you been a mass of contradictions? How long have you claimed to have faith while living full of doubt? How long have you told yourself you were devoted to living a conscious life, but have really done very little to pursue this business of truly becoming conscious?

9. Are you comfortable thinking about your life in impersonal terms?

Estamos hechos para utilizar nuestros recursos interiores, a fin de encontrar la fuerza material para dejar atrás creencias y comportamientos anticuados y vernos de un modo nuevo y sano.

Accept who you are and be good at what you do.

The myth that "emotions are bad" puts the blame in the wrong place. Emotions aren't inherently bad or unruly, but sin has devastated our emotions.

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.

I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

It's not nice being inside my head. It's a nice place to visit but I don't want to live in here. It's too crowded; too many traps and pitfalls.

Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow. Her voice held a smile. So am I

I always told my callers, you can choose. You can decide what to do. Don't blame your homicidal urges or basic assholeness on being a monster, because you can choose. God help me. God, help me.

That we have purpose for being who we are, and what we are, though we may not always know it.

The eyes of his friend were moist and dark, and in them he saw the little rectangled pictures of himself that he had watched a thousand times.

I think I have a vague idea what you were driving at, she said. We all of us somehow caught. We born this way and we don't know why. But we caught anyhow. I born Berenice. You born Frankie. John Henry born John Henry. And maybe we wants to widen and bust free. But no matter what we do we still caught. Me is me and you is you and he is he. We each one of us somehow caught all by ourself. Is that what you was trying to say?

When I was a girl I didn't know/I was a girl. I thought I was/more of a pigment, a choral tone,/some kind of weather that disrupts everyone's life in the living room.

I mean who the hell do you think you are, exactly? Saint Roland of the Perpetual Martyrdom?

Oh, yes, he'd spent a good portion of his day in self-pity. And now? Now he felt shame.

I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this medium average person. A little tired, a little sad, but not falling apart.