Quotes About Self-awareness

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man: It is we.

The missing link between animals and the real human being is most likely ourselves.

For the next four years, they will again and again tout themselves as "real" and I will be too naïve to know that anyone who uses that designation is disguising a representation of immense falsity

It's meant I will act like less of an asshole, but feel much more like one.

First of all, I'm not narcissistic." When she opened her lips to argue, he said, "I know Narkissos of Thespiae -- while we might share traits, I came first, so he's Lothairistic, not the other way around.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

If a man believed he was Hitler, did you send him to the barber for a short back and sides? – 'Teething Problems

thoughts control feelings and how being in control means that you can also always be in control of your anger and your happiness. Dr.

But any time you have a thought in your head about you that didn't come from the heart of God, you're trespassing against your own body.

Taking ownership for your decisions and your problems is the only way to ever become a healthy person.

Self-sabotage is the common denominator in all forms of anxiety and depression, whether rooted in the body, soul or spirit.

most important keys to winning these battles is simply to recognize that these thoughts are not our own and to reject all ownership of them.

Do not entertain the enemy's questions about how valuable you are.

If we can't face our losses, we can't be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

we will continue to despise people until we have recognized, loved, and accepted what is despicable in ourselves.

Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.

Nick," I murmured, "should I ever head into the cellar armed only with a ladle after the police have just warned me that a psychotic killer is on the loose, please slap me.

God grant me the courage to date the men who aren't idiots. The serenity to accept the fact that many men are idiots. And the wisdom to know the difference

Adam loves me. I know he loves me. To think I thought it was a tree. A knothole. Some kind of hole, yes, but really, I am such an idiot. Almost forty, and pathetically naive.

She wondered if he could see himself in a mirror. If he sparkled.

Bryce was a typical man—he didn't know what he needed; he just knew what he liked.

I loved my family. But as I got older, I felt myself . . . disappearing. The good child, the easy teenager, the strong student. My siblings outgrew their need for a sitter/shepherd.

It's hard to know who you are when you've been assigned a role so young. If your identity comes from what you do for other people, who are you when you're alone?

This, I told myself, was why I should date someone for a long, long time before sleeping with him. So I could know what kind of person I was letting into my life and my body. Zach was a boy; a spoiled, self-centered child in a man's body. Not once had he asked how I was.