Quotes About Self-awareness

The man was high yellow In public, afraid of himself, pretending his music Was material when in fact, it was the opposite: Like a breath that comes so quickly you know You're breathing ether: either atmospheric And anonymous as the air against a window, Or indefinite & mute as a curtain of wind.

to move beyond some part of you, you must first get to know it and ultimately befriend it.

What determines when we stay wise rather than lurch into reactivity? Current research shows clearly that it's determined by our subjective sense of safety or its lack.

true liberation is freedom from our own automatic responses.

It teaches men, women, and nonbinary people how to live skilled relational lives—lives of radically honest, fearlessly assertive, passionate connection to themselves and to those they love.

Pia Mellody, spoke of the Adaptive Child as a "kid in grown-up's clothing." The Adaptive Child is a child's version of an adult, the you that you cobbled together in the absence of healthy parenting. Here's a chart detailing the traits of the Adaptive Child, as distinct from the Wise Adult.

This everyday practice is relational mindfulness—stopping for a brief moment and centering ourselves. Observing, just as in all forms of mindfulness, the thoughts, feelings, impulses that arise—and choosing something different.

strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.

Learning to listen relationally, listen with cool heads and clear boundaries, listen with the quietness of the heart and the gentleness of the body, means having a self so developed it can afford to yield.

One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity—not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification of the range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

I was doing it again, and I do NOT ogle strangers.

If you can't get quiet enough to hear yourself, your life is too loud.

How can something bother you if you won't let it?

Did you really run into a monster on your path, or just a mirror?

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism.

invisible weaknesses and shortcomings. I do this because these are the characteristics that define us no less than our strengths. What we feel sets us apart from other people is often the thing that shapes us as individuals.

The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?"50

I must dispel vanity with vanity.

We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles

Do not hold on to the bitterness, Isabelle, it will eat at your body like worms, and you will ruin your future because of it. I was not always this unhappy. I know what people call me behind my back