Quotes About Self-awareness

You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

There is no enemy more vicious than your own anger.

If you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out. Nothing can come out of you that is not in you. If when you are pressured, anger comes out, it is not the fault of the person who pressured.

I enjoy my anger, it's the only hobby I have.

Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.

If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered.

Well Connor thought ruefully At least now I know who to thank for my anger issues.

O]ne can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.

The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods.

Once there was a man who filmed his vacation./He went flying down the river in his boat/with his video camera to his eye, making/a moving picture of the moving river/...[At the end of his vacation,]/With a flick of the switch, there it would be./But he would not be in it. He would never be in it.

He nearly always seems steady, reined pretty tight. But it's no trouble to look at him now and see that it has been a long time since he has been at rest in himself.

We are in the habit of contention—against the world, against each other, against ourselves. It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.

It has always taken me a long time to think of something to say, and then more often than not I say it to myself.

The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods. Twelfth

And of course Cecelia held some secret doubts about herself; you can't dislike nearly everybody and be quite certain that you have exempted yourself.

felt older. I felt that I had seen ages of the world come and go. Now, finally, I really had lost all desire for change, every last twinge of the notion that I ought to get somewhere or make something of myself. I was what I was. "I will stand like a tree," I thought, "and be in myself as I am." And the things of Port William seemed to stand around me, in themselves as they were.

If we are serious about these big problems, we have got to see that the solutions begin and end with ourselves. Thus we put an end to our habit of oversimplification. If we want to stop the impoverishment of land and people, we ourselves must be prepared to become poorer. If

Though I knew that actually I had heard no voice, I could not dismiss the possibility that it had spoken and I had failed to hear it because of some deficiency in me or something wrong that I had done….I decided that I had better accept the call that had not come, just in case it had come and I had missed it.

My Mind became the root of my life rather than its sublimation

Satyr," he says, "is a sort of Glass, wherein Beholders do generally discover every body's Face but their Own; which is the chief Reason for that kind Reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.