Quotes About Self-awareness

by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more and more about myself, and I found this to be a bewitching occupation. I stopped asking and longed instead to speak of my thoughts and feelings. Alas, there was no one besides myself who found me interesting.

Å, Anna Aemelin, det eneste du bryr deg om, er din egen samvittighet, det er den du pleier.

Ja, det forstår jeg. En går helst bare ut når en må. Eller når en har lyst. Det er vel best å vente, og kjenne etter.

Jag trur inte att jag helt och hållet är lesbisk... och mitt förhållande til männen er oförandrat.

The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know.

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

For example, all human beings grow up believing that life should turn out one way or another. This drives you, as an individual, to constantly compare your current reality with the ideal in your mind of how life "should" turn out—which in turn affects a startling amount of what you do.

There is a way that things should he. And when they are that way, things are right. When they're not that way, there's something wrong with me (the interpreter of events), with them (other people), or with it (anything in the world).

The way you are being is the source of your reality, which in turn is the source of your actions.

But it wasn't running the project that threatened to do him in; it was the unwanted, persistent condition—the racket—of not being able to say no, or fully commit to yes.

Does everybody have a point at which they have to look in the mirror and ask themselves some of the bigger questions? Is it possible to go through life without ever doing that?

I think my parents did a better job of raising me than I did of raising my own kids.

Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.

Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, this is not easy.

Good decisions require far more than factual knowledge. They are made using self-knowledge and emotional mastery when they're needed most.

The biggest challenge to developing self-awareness is objectivity. It's hard to develop perspective on your emotions and tendencies when every day feels like a new mountain to climb.

People high in self-awareness are remarkably clear in their understanding of what they do well, what motivates and satisfies them, and which people and situations push their buttons.

Your mind is your nine

She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

Dat had always told her that whenever you got angry at another person, it was an opportunity to take a glimpse of your own faults.

Learn to accept and embrace your flaws, you may not be perfect, but you are unique.

If every day is first day of your life, maybe you are being perpetually infantile.

Take inventory. Invent a story about the people you have hurt. Begin with yourself.

As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.