Quotes About Self-awareness

I hate when I'm an idiot and I don't know it. I like to be aware of my idiocy, to really revel in it, take pictures.

Millie: Maggie's funny Maggie: I am that. I am that. And nobody knows better than meself how funny. When the good Lord thought me up He said, "I'll make her nothin' to look at but she'll be good to listen to." Come away with you now an' listen some more.

the place seemed different without him, bare of personality. Last night she had again confronted herself, and the knowledge that she was letting herself down by even thinking the way she did and had again brought forth the rejoinder: what real harm could there be in thinking because all she would ever have of him were thoughts, She would never give herself away and so who was to know what she thought.

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who.

Only the man who knows freedom can define his prison.

Part of the rediscovery process is figuring out what you think about the person looking back at you in the mirror.

When we react to situations, we always choose what feels best for us emotionally.

The face I saw always seemed to belong to a stranger - was it because I tried to please too many people too often, and had never given myself a chance to let my own personality come through on it?

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?

I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right.

I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.

And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she's so comfortable with herself. And you know, that's not such a bad notion, in the whole life-lesson business. Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you're not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be?

You can't think about how much you have left to do because that's just one thought, one sad thought, that'll make you bummed out all day long. Instead you've got to think about how much you've already done.

Anger is not a feeling; it's a defence. When you can't acknowledge your true feelings because they're too excruciating, you defend against them with anger.

every time she felt angry she should remember that anger is a defence, not a feeling, and to analyze what feeling the anger was covering.

Second, I told her that every time she felt angry she should remember that anger is a defence, not a feeling, and to analyze what feeling the anger was covering.

Why don't you picture pushing away all your defences and just sit with the question 'Why am I still nice to my mother?' And then see what floats into your mind.

she had her own boundaries, she'd no longer need the alternate personalities.

Peter hadn't been treated as a person, and so, eventually, he didn't experience himself as one.

Is it better to feel or to maintain your sanity?

therapy wasn't about truth; as Jack Nicholson famously shouted in A Few Good Men, sometimes people "can't handle the truth." Rather, it's a matter of getting your unconscious to stop controlling your conscious mind. Effective therapy is about lowering your defences so that you can deal with the issues that arise in your life.

Lewa, mystery-king of know-nothingness. That's me!