Quotes About Self-awareness

Agora, cada vez que nos vemos, depois que deixo você, vou para casa com um sentimento miserável de que sou lenta e estúpida sobre tudo. Repenso coisas que disse e arranjo respostas brilhantes e espirituosas que deveria ter dito e tenho vontade de me chutar porque não as mencionei quando estávamos juntos.

I know I should have written some progress reports before this so they will know whats happening to me. But writing is harder. I have to look up even simple words in the dictionary now and it makes me angry with myself.

Holy smoke I reely pulled a Charlie Gordon that time.

I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies.

Seeing myself in the front mirror looking into the back mirror, as he held it for me, it tilted for an instant into the one angle that produced the illusion of depth; endless corridors of myself... looking at myself... looking at myself... looking... Which one? Who was I?

Charlie, don't push me. I don't know. Already, you've gone beyond my intellectual reach. In a few months or even weeks, you'll be a different person. When you mature intellectually, we may not be able to communicate. When you mature emotionally, you may not even want me. I've got to think of myself too, Charlie. Let's wait and see. Be patient.

integrating the whole of the desires and the passions with the quest is also a difficult path, because this path demands total clarity about what you really are, with no reference to what you would like to be.

If you can't discover what's keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - Ishmael

For how could he live with himself, if indeed he did live at all, knowing that his life was so inextricably bound to others, knowing that he was not his own man? "So

Yep those are goosebumps. Or a bad case of arm acne. Or as I call it, armcne.

I don't agree that I have a lot of confidence.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous.

Yes, I am a failure…And I don't know how to react, but I am happy because I know how to RE-ACT.

My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.

I don't fear pain or failure anymore because I'm too grateful for the pains and failures of my past – they have made me who I am, and most of the good things in my life are a direct result of them in some way.

Defensiveness often reveals an area of our lives where we're in denial.

Don't text or twitter during the show. Just live your life. Don't keep telling people what you're doing. Also it lights up your big dumb face.

God, please help me not be an asshole, is about as common a prayer as I pray in my life.

Write down everything you feel about money – 'I love you;' 'I wish I had more of you;' 'I don't trust you;' – Then, look at the ones that aren't quite so pretty and figure out how you can shift them to be in a more positive, grateful space.

Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very seconds. Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Calmness is a human superpower. The ability to not overreact or take things personally keeps your mind clear and your heart at peace.

Don't believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate.

Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.