Quotes About Self-awareness

Rumi: Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

The worst burden in life is what others know about us. But maybe there is one burden even worse than this. It happens when they don't know about us, it is what they think about us when, in silence, they force us to be what they expect us to be. Even worse is how we become it and I, chonorroeja, have become it.

The over examined life, Claire, it's not worth living.

It is, in the end, she thinks, the shallowest of confessions: all of the truth, none of the honesty.

In the end you should probably know your characters as well as you know yourself. Not only what they had for breakfast this morning, but what they wanted to have for breakfast.

I'd even had business cards made up reading, ABIGAIL COOPER, P.I. with teeny-weeny little letters underneath in parentheses spelling out PSYCHIC INTUITIVE. Most people think I'm trying to be clever. The truth is, I'm a chickenshit.

It's probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are. (413)

She remembered how her parents had warned her about Malloy, and she remembered how Malloy warned her about Malloy. Too many things to remember.

Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.

No instinct tells him what he has to do, and no tradition tells him what he ought to do; sometimes he does not even know what he wishes to do. Instead, he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!" It seems to me that there is nothing which would

Gordon W. Allport's book, The Individual and His Religion: "The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way to self-management, perhaps to cure.

Logotherapy tries to make the patient fully aware of his own responsibleness; therefore, it must leave to him the option for what, to what, or to whom he understands himself to be responsible. That is why a logotherapist is the least tempted of all psychotherapists to impose value judgments on his patients, for he will never permit the patient to pass to the doctor the responsibility of judging.

Logotherapy tries to make the patient fully aware of his own responsibleness; therefore, it must leave to him the option for what, to what, or to whom he understands himself to be responsible. That is why a logotherapist is the least tempted of all psychotherapists to impose value judgments on his patients, for he will

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!'' It

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!'' It seems to me

there is a danger inherent in the teaching of man's nothingbutness, the theory that man is nothing but the result of biological, psychological and sociological conditions, or the product of heredity and environment. Such a view of man makes a neurotic believe what he is prone to believe anyway, namely, that he is the pawn and victim of outer influences or inner circumstances. This neurotic fatalism is fostered and strengthened by a psychotherapy which denies that man is free.

rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest. Not a few

Live as if you living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.

Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now. In

H]uman freedom implies man's capacity to detach himself from himself.

Between the stimulus and the response there is a space, and in that space is your power and your freedom.