Quotes About Self-awareness

Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.

As the saying goes, the unexamined life is not worth-living.

A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself." I

Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it. We think terrible events have made us into stone. But love slips in like a chisel - and suddenly it is an ax, breaking us into pieces from the inside.

She contemplated a mystery: How is it I am humiliated when I am alone? Does not humiliation demand an audience?

The problem with always having to be right is that sometimes you're not. And so, if you're like me, those times when you're not, you try and save face—especially after you've seriously fucked up. You make one bad decision and then another, trying to fix that very first fuck-up.

I kind of understood at a young age that I didn't play well with most other kids in the sandbox.

The plain unvarnished reality that we cannot escape who we are and most of the time we die as we lived.

The past is like grace. It's not enough to know about it. We all know what happened back there. Grace allows you to see yourself in light of the past, not in the shadow of it. You see the truth about yourself, your need. On

sometimes you need permission to remember. There are things locked up inside all of us that we don't think are affecting us but have bearing on our lives every day." "You

You never see your own face until you look into something reflecting it, but it sure is easy to see the flaws in everyone else.

But reconciliation, self-awareness, and finally the humility that makes peace possible come only when culture no longer serves a cause or a myth but the most precious and elusive of all human narratives—truth.

We try to see ourselves moving through our life as a camera would see us, mindful of how we hold ourselves, how we dress, what we say. We invent movies that play inside our heads. We imagine ourselves the main characters. We imagine how an audience would react to each event in the movie of our life.

I use the NordicTrack every other day for 20 minutes. I don't listen to music or watch TV while I do it. I count to myself. I count to 25; I count to 25 backwards, that sort of thing.

If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.

I think it's important to hold a mirror up to society and yourself.

I know, ultimately, I want to help effect change; otherwise, I would look at myself in the mirror every day and think, 'What in the world am I doing with my life?'

It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.

When I look in the mirror, I never see a handsome chap or the person people think I am.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

I see red only twice - when I took in the mirror and when I read that I'm a second Greer Garson.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

It's not fun to see myself in the mirror.