Quotes About Self-awareness

Miracles come out of rest. Resting in knowing who we are. It's who we are that defines us, not what we do. If we allow what we do to define who we are, then we are heading for trouble. Miracles are not done for identity; they are because of our identity.

If any of this breaks your heart, it was probably already a little broken to begin with.

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

You're aware there are things you once valued and were proud of in yourself, but they exist at a remove now, because they're overwhelmed by the question of whether they would be good and acceptable to him. Morality, ambition, desire, pleasure all take a backseat to, What would he think of this, and how shall I describe it to him? All you care about is maximizing his impression of you.

Every question, once it's formulated," she writes, "contains its own internal truth. We have to stop diverting ourselves with false questions

Cómo crearon los jesuitas la compañía religiosa de más éxito en la historia? ¿Y cómo llegan los individuos a ser líderes hoy? Conociéndose a sí mismos. Innovando para amoldarse a un mundo cambiante. Amando al prójimo. Apuntando muy alto y más lejos.

Conocimiento de sí mismo, ingenio, amor y heroísmo. No son cuatro técnicas sino cuatro principios que dan forma a una manera de vivir, un modo de proceder. Ningún jesuita triunfó adoptando tres de los principios y prescindiendo del cuarto.

I could have done something in there to stop it, that first day, before it got too far along. There'd be no stopping it, after that first day. I could have done it, if only I were a different kind of guy. But I'm not. I'm exactly this kind of guy. I'm all I've got, and I never claimed to have anything better to work with. *

I don't mind not being cool.

Sometimes I don't think I've done anything to leave my mark in this world. I'm the kind of person the world leaves a mark on.

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

I think the most dangerous word in the English language is "should." I "should" have done this. Or I "should" do that. "Should" implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.

You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.

At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.

The true source of happiness is within each of us.

Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.

Although Walter was the first to admit that his own memory wasn't the best—that he forgot people's names all the time even when he'd been introduced more than once—he

Das Ungenügen mit sich selbst ist der eigentliche Stachel.

I often wonder if the bill is yet to be presented during our lifetime. If not, I must present it to myself.

Was für eine vorzügliche Einrichtung, daß die Gedanken nicht als sichtbare Schrift über unsre Stirnen laufen! Leicht würde jedes Beisammensein, selbst ein harmloses wie dieses, zum Mördertreffen. Oder wir lernten es, uns über uns selbst zu erheben, ohne Haß in die Zerrspiegel zu blicken, welche die andern uns sind. Und ohne Trieb, die Spiegel zu zerschlagen. Dazu aber, sie weiß es ja, sind wir nicht gemacht.

It's really ridiculous to assume that people are improved by hearing someone tell the truth about them.

Salailemalla salaisuuksiaan käy tarpeettoman suureksi ero sen välillä, mitä on itselleen ja mitä teeskentelee olevansa muille.

That person who declares that there is always something wrong is always doing something to make things wrong.

When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticize ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.