Quotes About Self-awareness

I used to be the type of person who would jump in and try to solve a problem without being asked. Not only did my efforts prove fruitless, they were also almost always unappreciated, and sometimes even resented.

So perhaps the best thing to do is simply be aware of how much venting is okay and how much is too much.

A low mood is not the time to analyze your life. To do so is emotional suicide.

Those who are in the habit of correcting others are often resented and avoided.

Mental health has commonly been called conscience, instinct, wisdom, common sense, or the inner voice. We

Without getting too psychoanalytical about it, the reason we are tempted to put others down, correct them, or show them how we're right and they're wrong is that our ego mistakenly believes that if we point out how someone else is wrong, we must be right, and therefore we will feel better.

While most of us wouldn't write ourselves a nasty letter, read it, and then feel offended, this is precisely what we do with regard to our thinking. We

Your thoughts always create your emotions. Understanding the significance of this fact is the first step in escaping from unhappiness and depression.

Rather than stumbling and fighting against their negative feelings, they are graceful in their acceptance of them.

If you can begin to see that your thoughts are not the real thing – they're just thoughts, and as thoughts they can't hurt you – your entire life will begin to change today. I have witnessed many times this very same realization transform someone from a life of fear and depression into a life of happiness.

when you judge someone else or their opinion, it really doesn't say anything about the other person, but it says quite a bit about your need to be judgmental.

The next time someone tells you a story or shares an accomplishment with you, notice your tendency to say something about yourself in response.

You never need to be frightened by your own thoughts.

Circumstances don't make a person, they reveal him or her.

The trick is to be grateful for our good moods and graceful in our low moods—not taking them too seriously.

Contrary to popular belief, negative feelings don't need to be studied and analyzed. When you analyze your negative feelings, you'll usually end up with more of them to contend with. The

If we could only live the way we know deep down we should, we would guarantee ourselves a life of richness & fulfillment.

Something needed to change - and fast. But it wasn't the world, government, or women that needed to change. It was me.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

consciousness-raising.

A consciência de que temos apenas uma vida deveria torná-la ainda mais preciosa. A visão ateísta reafirma e melhora a vida, e ao mesmo tempo nunca é afetada pela auto-ilusão, pelo excesso de otimismo ou pela autopiedade chorosa daqueles que acham que a vida lhes deve alguma coisa.

One man's feeling is not always equal to all life is. Sometimes it's not equal to anything much at all.

It surprised Anna and it upset Anna how small her life was each time she tried to tell it, to shape it in order to escape it, how it always came out too quickly as a few dispiriting sentences so easily dismissed.

They were men like other young men, unknown to themselves. So much that lay within them they were now travelling to meet. Beneath