Quotes About Self-awareness

I was sure that none of the other wonderful actors I had met for this role would have such truthfulness, would have such courage and self-awareness of auto-destruction as River does. - Agnieszka Holland

Put down the flashlight, pick up the mirror.

Simply put, if you have some emotion within you that you don't know how to manage, you seal that emotion away and start trying to manage other people's versions of it.

Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed our inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure.

The art of getting beyond our Upper Limit Problem has a lot to do with creating space within us to feel and appreciate natural good feelings.

I don't need any outside enemies. I have a perfectly good one residing right between my ears.

When we blame someone or something, we're doing it because we've hit our Upper Limit and are trying to retard the flow of positive energy.

Criticism and blame are addictions.

commit to discovering my Upper Limit behaviors, and to having a good time while I'm learning about them.

Many people think there are two faucets, marked GOOD FEELINGS and BAD FEELINGS. They think you can turn on the good one and leave the bad shut off. There is only one faucet, however, and it is marked FEELINGS. YOU turn it on, take what you get, and after a while it becomes mostly positive.

All other worry is just Upper Limit noise, designed by our unconscious to keep us safely within our Zone of Excellence or Zone of Competence.

For a long time, I just complained that "women are all the same." After I saw the same patterns in half a dozen different relationships, I finally woke up and realized it was I who was "all the same." I realized I was committed to getting involved with women who were distant and who would eventually abandon me. Seeing that I created my painful dramas out of my unconscious commitments was a big wake-up moment for me.

unless you were me, once again distorting reality so it would fit a negative mindset. I don't need any outside enemies. I have a perfectly good one residing right between my ears.

Say this sentence in your mind as often as you like. It expresses the attitude I'd like you to embody: I commit to discovering my Upper Limit behaviors, and to having a good time while I'm learning about them. You can learn a lot more with a spirit of wonder and enjoyment than you can with an attitude of criticism.

There is only one way to transform an entanglement into a relationship: both people must drop projection and see that they are 100 percent the creators of their reality.

Where do I feel out of integrity with myself? What is keeping me from feeling complete and whole?

Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

It's funny how once you start pretending, you realize how much everyone else is too.

The people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.

This is myself, baby. All of my selves. I own each and every one of them. I know who I'm pretending to be and who I am." The look he gives me is withering. "Do you?

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.

More and more lately it seems as though the majority of my conversations are with myself.

Las manchas son aún peores cuando eres el único que puede verlas.

I'd actually rather go off with my family. This is another thing you don't advertise about yourself,