Quotes About Self-awareness

Logically, I know I'm being controlled by my emotions. But my logic is just 2 percent right now. I feel emotionally raw. [Mystery] clenched his bedsheet in his fist. I feel strange and empty, like after a shit.

Once you realize that most people are just like you—and that they're actually seeking your approval—you'll start to become socially fearless.

Most things are not about you, though they do reveal how you think about yourself.

The secret to life is not to take it personally. The things people do and say are not always

There is no such thing as fear," Rasputin replied. "Emotions are just energy and motion that you trap inside your body because of a thought." Mini-Clark

All of your emotions are going to try to fuck you up. They are there to try to confuse you, so know right now that they cannot be trusted at all. You will feel shy sometimes, and self-conscious, and you must deal with it like you deal with a pebble in your shoe. It's uncomfortable, but you ignore it. It's not part of the equation.

What's helped with saying no to others is asking myself first if I'm saying yes out of guilt or fear. If so, then it's a polite no.

Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we

The best thing we can do for our relationships with others . . . is to render our relationship to ourselves more conscious. This is not a narcissistic activity. In fact, it will prove to be the most loving thing we can do for the Other. The greatest gift to others is our own best selves. Thus, paradoxically, if we are to serve relationship well, we are obliged to affirm our individual journey. —JAMES HOLLIS The Eden Project

There's an unconscious part of ourselves we want to defend," she continues, "and it's been useful and helped us survive the difficult stuff we went through with Mom or Dad or the priest or the coach. But we don't want it driving the car anymore." She looks at me and Troy and Adam and Calvin, then concludes: "Life's not worth living if you're living someone else's life.

Relationships are like divining rods for locating one's faults and weaknesses.

For as he thinks within himself, so he is (Proverbs 23:7). T

Frankly the question came to this: what was the matter with her? Was there, without her knowing it, some peculiar lack in her? Absurd. But she began to have a feeling of discouragement and hopelessness. Why couldn't she be happy, content, somewhere Other people managed, somehow, to be. To put it plainly, didn't she know how? Was she incapable of it?

The Rape of the Sabines," by Da Bologna, which is one of the few classical paintings I can name. Sometimes I wonder about myself.

As he'd thought, and as he'd always known, Henry and Vivian were better suited for each other. But better is not best, and though he was angry— and hurt— he was also concerned about Vivian. He still liked Henry, but not as much as Henry liked himself. He would have told Vivian this— as a friend— but she might think it was coming from a jealous ex-lover. So he wasn't going to say anything now.

Why do I piss people off? What is wrong with me?

There are some things about oneself that it's not very nice to wake up to.

Your own actions are a better mirror of your life than the actions of all your enemies put together.

It is not the fault of the mirror if it reflects our blemishes as clearly as our beauty.

Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

The armour of others is too wide, or too strait for us; it falls off us, or it weighs us down.

Guilt could be as simple as that. There didn't have to be anything maudlin or self-pitying about it. It was a fact and you lived with the consequences, a kind of contract under which your actions led to inevitable obligations.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

I just tell people what they already know, but are afraid to admit to themselves.