Quotes About Self-awareness

Stay true to yourself and the answer will become clear

I have a grasshopper and haphazard mind y'know, a brain that listens to all sorts of things as well as itself.

When we constantly fill up all our "empty" time with stimulation in the form of electronic devices, games, and distractions, our brains become disengaged and the thinking process is effectively halted. We never get to hear our own inner voice-we don't develop a relationship with ourselves and our minds. We don't get to know who we are because we're not listening.

Knowing yourself" or "finding yourself" can be dangerous. It can cement you into a strict role & saddle you with unnecessary expectations. It can close you off to inner potential & outer opportunities.

Repentance confesses, "God, I am wrong regardless of what anyone else has done." The moment you say, "God, I am wrong but so are they," you are trying to find a defense for remaining like you are.

It is quite possible that I have underestimated you, Gwyneth. But that's no reason for you to overestimate yourself.

Sometimes I remember the way I used to be," she said as we sat across the table from each other, "and I'm surprised nobody ever smacked me." I took a long sip of my coffee so that I would not have to answer her. I wanted to tell her that she ought to be more generous to the girl she used to be, if not out of respect for herself, then out of respect for me, or more specifically for the boy I used to be, who loved that girl, after all.

never feel guilty about anything shame and guilt are a waste of time just do what you do-- and deal with it

Be conten with who you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor look on to it.

Ir pagalvojau, kas j? daro tok? graž? - proporcijos, bruožai, oda, kaulai po oda?.. O gal tik aš? Mano akys, mano vizija, mano ?sitikinimas... Mano mintys.

I'm not sure what happened to me over the last few days. I lost myself, I think. I sank down into a hole for a while. They're tricky things, holes. You don't know you're in one until you get out.

I looked her in the eye, trying to see beyond the pose, trying to imagine what she was like when she was alone... but I couldn't see it. That sort of girl is never alone, because without other people they have to be themselves, and they can't stand themselves.

The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, isn't it?

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When I told one friend that I objected to the idea of "false gods," that I thought it was about "My God is better than your God," he told me that rather than taking the First Commandment literally—"Thou shalt have no other gods before me"—he found it to be a powerful image of his addiction. His false god was alcohol. He lived for that god, he "turned his will and his life over" to that god.

The smartest person in the room never says they're the smartest person in the room.

As she wove in and out of all the people - rushing, talking, eating, laughing; some in clumps, some alone - she realized that no one, no one at all in the airport, or on the entire planet for that matter, knew her thoughts, knew what she was carrying inside her head and heart. And at that very minute, what was inside her head and heart made her feel as though there was no one else in the whole world she would rather be.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

robust intelligence may be a liability—especially if by "intelligence" we mean our peculiar self-awareness, all our frantic loops of introspection and messy currents of self-consciousness. We want our self-driving car to be inhumanly focused on the road, not obsessing over an argument it had with the garage.

The funny thing about a whole class of technology that enhances experience and personalization is that it puts great pressure on us to know who we are.

A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.

We are unconsciously distracted by seeing our reflection. You can alleviate a lot of the fatigue of teleconferencing all day if you turn off your self-view.

When you keep people waiting they begin to think of all your flaws.

Speaking the truth in love requires two parts--truth and love. Cut either one out of the equation, and you'll cut yourself short. You may be one of the most difficult people for you to love because you know your weaknesses so well. Likewise, you may be one of the most difficult people to tell the truth to because it's so much easier to avoid facing the lies you tell yourself. But put those two elements together in your life--truth and love--and see how much easier they are to take!