Quotes About Self-awareness

The modern adult, Jake had written, has really only one thing to say to its inner child: I'm sorry. I'm so fucking sorry 

It's the inner life that fucks up relationships.

You can't live if you can't accept what you are, and you can't accept what you are if you can't say what you do.

can't live if you can't accept what you are, and you can't accept what you are if you can't say what you do. The power of naming, as old as Adam.

Every present anger derives from past weakness.

One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous.

Be who you really are, not who you allowed yourself to become.

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

Never forget who you are; a daughter of a Heavenly Father. You have royal heritage, and anyone who makes you feel like less that is not a man,husband,father, or friend,simply someone who is afraid of you because he knows who you are, but doesn't know who he is.

Don't fall into the trap of believing so deeply in your own ideology that you cannot even see the flaws in it.

The world isn't against you, Eddie," he continued. "You are against you. You have to realize that no one is meant to carry the load alone. We're all in this together. Once you realize that you can ask for help, your whole world will change.

you believe you are always being watched and judged, you are not really a free individual.

The persons to be inspected should always feel themselves as if under inspection, at least as standing a great chance of being so." They would thus act as if they were always being watched, even if they weren't.

the second coming we must prepare for is our own. I believe that all of us who take up the torch to carry light into the dark corners of the human heart are Christ returned, His second coming.

By contrast to the above views, people with self-esteem believe they are neither more or less than human. Knowing their faults and rough edges, they still are deeply and quietly glad to be who they are (Briggs 1977). They are like the good friend who knows you well and likes you anyway because they recognize the goodness, excellence, and potential that coexist alongside imperfections.

Self-awareness, the basic sense of self, and implicit memory (discussed below). To a great degree, self-esteem is imprinted as a felt sense in the right brain by the first three years, and stored implicitly below conscious awareness (Wilkinson 2010). Such imprints are usually not responsive to logic or words.

I was so busy enjoying the change in you, I didn't notice it in myself.

The purpose of ass-kicking is not that your ass gets kicked at the right time or for the right reason," she often explained. "It's to keep your ass sensitive.

I'm not black on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and a woman on Thursday, Friday and Saturday

one writerly habit was describing everything I did, no matter how absorbing or how trivial, as if I were standing outside myself and watching.

The best thing about self-defense is knowing there is a self

We have become the men we wanted to marry.

Life's first rule is very simple, be what you are. The way to this is the truth and this is the way to life.

They are not even thinking of themselves, they are thinking of falsity. Because people who love themselves choose the truth.