Quotes About Self-awareness

I cannot overcome a fear whose reality I deny. I cannot correct a problem in the way I deal with my associates if I will not admit it exists. I cannot change traits I insist I do not have. I cannot forgive myself for an action I will not acknowledge having taken.

Not all communication problems are the result of inadequate education; sometimes the cause is a self-concept that generates self-sabotage.

Living consciously is both a cause and an effect of self-efficacy and self-respect.

The more I live consciously, the more I trust my mind and respect my worth; and if I trust my mind and respect my worth, it feels natural to live consciously.

Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so in exorable as one's self!

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream : it may be so at the moment after death.

It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.

people always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser...

All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

Siate sinceri! Siate sempre sinceri! E mostrate francamente al mondo, se non proprio il vostro lato peggiore, almeno qualche aspetto, da cui possa essere noto il peggiore male che è in voi.

I wonder he is not afraid to be alone with himself. Men sometimes are so, said her husband.

It was carelessly at first, like a man chiefly accustomed to look inward, and to whom external matters are of little value and import, unless they bear relation to something within his mind.

The most powerful minds are not always the best acquainted with their own feelings.

My poor, dear, pretty Feathertop! There are thousands upon thousands of coxcombs and charlatans in the world, made up of just such a jumble of wornout, forgotten, and good-for-nothing trash as he was! Yet they live in fair repute, and never see themselves for what they are. And why should my poor puppet be the only one to know himself and perish for it?

Strange that she'd never known she had such cruelty inside.

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.

How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.

But now we've finally taken full possession of what is rightfully ours, because everyone must feel their own pain--and as awful as that is, it's also wonderful.

You come to know the pattern of your particular chemical bombardment. The numbness, the lack of focus, the artificial sense of peace when the meds first hit your system. The growing paranoia and anxiety as they wane. The worse you feel, the more you can get into the treacherous waters of your own thoughts. The greater the threat from the inside, the more you long for those waters, as if you've grown accustomed to the terrible tentacles that seek to draw you into their crushing embrace.

definition. How can she not see that when you are defined, you lose the ability to define yourself?