Quotes About Self-awareness

Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest - and sometimes painful - self-assessments.

I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.

You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that.

I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars - and, of course, the planets.

I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.

I was able to find myself spiritually by realizing that my happiness started with me.

I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.

I'm not stupid: if I have not been a starter with Ancelotti, Benitez and Zidane, it's my fault.

You play the game to compete and you want to be a starter, but at the same time you don't want to rush yourself to be in any situation that could possibly lead you back to where you are today.

What's certain is that ranking powerful people is inherently self-defeating. For starters, true potentates know who they are without being told, and they have no need to announce it.

I don't know if I'm more confident than ever before, because I definitely had confidence when I was starting out. Maybe I have less confidence now that I did then.

It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous.

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

The past will always affect me, and I will keep that in mind while remembering that how it played out is only my starting point, not my final destination.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.

We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.

If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control.

I'm not immune to a lack of confidence or the recognition that I haven't asked for what I deserve or stated what I want.