Quotes About Self-awareness

When it comes down to it. "I've never fooled anyone. I've let them fool themselves.

Wait-a-minute!.. "Deal with yourself first. The rest of the world can wait.

Work on yourself first. Be patient and recognize the real you underneath.

I'm not trying to be someone else, but it seems that my being in a bad mood, may be a BIT of a problem.

You can make every day perfect, as long as you are true to the best that is in you.

You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're ok. Who are you when nobody's watching?

At times we have to stand up for ourselves and put our foot down, so we put our point across with controlled and calculated anger because many people out there are stiff necked and unrelenting, it's a means to protect one's integrity and at the same time trying to edify the opposing party...but a person that snaps at a whim suffers from chronic anger, lacks self-control and is not at peace with oneself, such a person has deep unconscious issues that needs to be addressed...

This is who I am and who I've always been. The only difference is you're just now realizing it.

People that are negative, spend so much time trying to control situations and blame others for their problems.

I don't speak much at all, I am not the life of the party and "I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. I'm just Me. And I'm pretty fine with that.

No matter what you do, someone will judge you. Real or fake! No one wants to be judged, but not everyone gets to see all sides of someone. Fake, I don't think that's fake, I think that's Boundaries. I'm not saying to lie, just don't give everyone fully you. Everyone don't need to know you fully.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

You don't need to change who you are. You just need to be able to know who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

We all go through hard times in life. It's a part of being alive and it's the reality we all have to deal with. There are times we forget our value as a person because we are so blinded with these thoughts of loneliness, emptiness and ego.

Oh God just look at me now... "I am the perfect version of me.

Paradoxically, our ability to see something of the Shadow within ourselves sharpens our capacity to recognize shadowy actions around us.

How scary it might prove to conclude that I am essentially alone in this summons to personal consciousness, that I cannot continue to blame others for what has happened to me, that I am really out there on that tightrope over the abyss, making choices every day, and that I am truly, irrevocably responsible for my life. That I would have to grow up, stand naked before this immense brutal universe, and step in to the largeness of this journey, my journey.

What we have become is typically an assemblage of defense mechanisms and anxiety-management systems generated by the adaptive needs that our fate-fueled biographies bring to us.

None of us would admit to having "bad character," although we have all done bad things. In fact, a person who has never done anything "bad" will be a pretty superficial, infantile being, and that is a bad thing.

We have to recall the functional definition of the Shadow as that which renders us uncomfortable in confronting in ourselves.

And thus fourthly, it only stands to reason, that the best thing we can do for ourselves and for the other is to assume more of the developmental agenda for ourselves.

Solitude can be defined as learning that we are not alone when we are alone. When we have achieved the stature of solitude, namely achieving a conscious relationship with ourselves, then we are freer to share ourselves with others, freer to receive their gifts in return and not be infantilized by the mutual archaic agenda of childhood, the agenda that covertly uses the other to provide for us.

So much of life is on automatic pilot, and we pay for this loss of consciousness over and over in the sabotage of relationships, in our self-stultifying attitudes, and in the shameful power we routinely bequeath to others in managing our values.

We must examine what we envy or dislike in others and acknowledge those very things in ourselves. This helps to prevent our blaming or envying others for what we have not done ourselves.