Quotes About Self-awareness

Begin with the higher fact that you are not here on earth to live up to anyone's expectations—including your own. There is something much higher for you to be in this life than to spend your days doing what only strains and drains you. Your True Self knows that there is only one supreme command: you need never answer any demand that causes you pain or that asks you to sacrifice your integrity.

Then, rather than trying to change others to suit our needs, our choice would be to simply drop this false idea that someone else is responsible for our fulfillment.

Catriana sighed. "I'm hard to make friends with," she said at length. "I doubt it's worth your effort.

You had to grow into your own significance—or come to terms with the lack of it.

If it makes you feel better, dying here, I'm not a farmboy

Everyone is better than you at something. If you have a tough time accepting others, it's probably because you think you're superior to them. However, you're not superior to every person in every way.

You don't have to enjoy life, you simply have to do the best you can at it. Because every day you wake up and see yourself in the mirror, and that reflection is something you can never get away from. Not ever.

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

My father died of the same thing that Edwyn had suffered... Was I too stupid--I couldn't be--to take a lesson from that? Could I trust myself? Not to make my life a lair.

The crucial thing here is not to listen to your mind. Your mind has got its basic communication lines crossed. If you try to fly in this flak you will shoot down your own aircraft. Keep close to yourself...fly under your own radar. Let the anti-aircraft guns discharge their ammunition into the plaid sky. Steal home, undetected even by yourself. Whatever you do, in this state, don't think.

Szerintem ti semmit sem tudtok magatokról, minthogy sose voltatok évekig magánzárkába zárva.

I write woman: woman must write woman. And man, man. So only an oblique consideration will be found here of man; it's up to him to say where his masculinity and femininity are at: this will concern us once men have opened their eyes and seen themselves clearly.

Hold still we're going to do your portrait, so that you can begin looking like it right away.

Here I am now. And it is hell. Paradise? Yes, I still am here, but who? only myself, with my small waist, my small soul, my small arms, my small intelligence pushed to its greatest heights and thus ruthlessly able to see itself shut up inside its supple transparent but oh ruthlessly inflexible membrane, if I push it any farther it will burst its envelope, I am going to lose part of my mind, we will not longer steer clear of madness.

Your feelings are a part of you. They exist and there's no way to run from what you feel. Don't ever be ashamed of them." Your feelings tell you who you are.

Sometimes, you have to look back and remember who you were, before someone told you who you should be.

look again into your heart, see that you're more beautiful than you ever were before!

look again into your heart. See that you're more beautiful than you ever were before!

I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

If you look deep enough into yourself." And dare to dig deep enough, you will find that you are a complete whether there is someone in your life or not.

If you look deep enough into yourself." And dare to dig deep enough, you will find that you are complete whether there is someone in your life or not.

The beauty you see in me, is a reflection of you.

Know who you are. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. You have to know who you are. No one else can give you that.

Some days I'm sad, Some days 'I'm happy and some days I'm depressed and don't know who I am. But I know I'm here for a reason.