Quotes About Self-awareness

what we will hate. We decide what we will do with the love and hate. Every day we decide. It was this that revealed who we were, not the color of our flesh or the shape of our eyes or the language we spoke.

She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.

But even the venerable Zen teacher Robert Aitken Roshi, in an interview about being old—he was in his eighties at the time—admitted with a laugh, "I often feel like a young person who has something wrong with me." It

At first, I made a list of the difficult things that I was experiencing myself, like memory loss, sore knees, and fear of loneliness, and I set out to write an essay about each one.

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Love is being honest with yourself at all times being honest with the other person at all times telling, listening, respecting the truth and never pretending Love is the source of reality

To be REAL means waking up. Waking up to the inner-truth of who we are and what drives us. It requires an honest look in the mirror to acknowledge that we are not perfect. Waking up means we are willing to transform ourselves from fear-based mindsets and behaviors to become a better person than who we are today. Becoming a REAL leader requires authenticity, humility, caring, transparency, and discernment. Robertson, Susan. Real Leadership: Waken To Wisdom. The Books Factory. Kindle Edition.

No one can make us feel anything. It's up to us to feel whatever we feel.

The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness.

live accordingly to the truths within yorself

Has a sense of humor. (Preferably warped.) We know who we are

Ask yourself, "How did I get here? How is it that I find myself in a company, a role, a relationship, or a life from which I've absented my spirit? How did I lose my way?

Maya Angelou said, "When someone shows you who he is, believe him the first time." Or her.  What we do is who we are.  When someone says, "That's not me," after doing something or saying something hurtful, they are mistaken.  That is them.  That is exactly them or at least a part of them and it may be a part of them that you do not want in your life.

What is needed now is for leaders to become more open, more flexible, less egoistic and less hypocritical. We must loosen our death grip on whatever we believe to be the truth simply because it is how we want the truth to look. We must be honest with ourselves and invite honesty from others.

The mother who understands her own intentions and her daughter's intentions, who has introspection and a strong sense of self, and who is able to separate her identity from her daughter's, has the key to achieving the right balance.

Only you are yours.

It's best to know what your issues are before going ahead with a relationship.

I suddenly wondered if he thought that I was powerless, and then I realized that I was powerless.

Listen, you don't want me. Only you don't know it. You just think you do. I've been thrown out of a lot of places.

People think I'm much more than I am.

You like it. I probably wouldn't. I'm really only interested in my own behavior.

life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre

And I know, too, that recognizing one's mistakes does not erase them.

It's not my fault, what?" she countered, as she opened the package of chocolate chips. "That I make you 'feel' something--other than miserable?