Quotes About Self-awareness

Are you basically a pretty good, pretty decent person? Says who? Says you? Says your 'rents? Says your sibs?

Jeb had always said to think with your brain, not your emotions. He'd been right, as usual. So I put all my feelings in a box and locked it.

This taught me a lesson: there will always be someone smarter, younger, and tougher than you. People who seem to be rewarded more than you. It's important to accept that and focus on your own unique strengths. Otherwise , it will unravel you.

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

Oh God, I would love to do Broadway, but I'm unfortunately not a very good singer.

When I was being honest with myself, I had to own that there was something about me that was drawing an energy in my life that left me feeling underserved and unfulfilled. I decided to grow. I decided to purge myself of anyone and anything that was not full of goodness, serving me or making me happy.

I am very harsh on myself. I can point out a list. My nose is very strange. I have a very round face. I sound so ungrateful. Obviously I'm being hard on myself. Whether it's body dysmorphia, or whatever it is, I can always find something wrong.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

I am the kind of person who over-thinks, so I don't want to get to a point where I'm creating scenarios, taking pressure and people being unhappy.

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

I never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy.

In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?

In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.

I don't think I'm an unhappy person. It's just an intensity, not a depressive thing. It's just not having enough layers of skin. It's exhausting.

If you have everything you want in life, including money, fame and being asked out on dates by 20 cute boys, and you are still unhappy then you have to go deep within yourself to fix the issue.

I'm not very good at watching myself. I look at it and I think, 'Oh, they've used the wrong take.' My job is over and it's not healthy to sit there and scrutinize your work as you're invariably unhappy!

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.