Quotes About Self-awareness

I'm better than you think. I'm even better than I think I am.

My feeling is, if you're not self-obsessed you're probably boring.

Am I just curious? Or do I want this? And if I did want this, what sort of person am I?

Laugh at both the state of the world and at ourselves. In doing so, it allows us to acknowledge our flaws while also transcending them.

We fought so hard against the small things that we became small ourselves. —EUGENE O'NEILL

Rule your mind or it will rule you. —Horace

The trick is to ensure not so much that what you are doing is, for you, the right thing, all the time (how, ultimately, could you know that for sure?) but that you are firmly in the driver's seat with a functioning process for discovering and engaging with your best choice.

You may want to begin by asking yourself, "What behavior might undermine what I'm doing, and how can I prevent it?" That will give you a good starting point for defining your standards.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

What behavior might undermine what I'm doing, and how can I prevent it?

In order to deal effectively with all of that, you must first identify and collect all those things that are "ringing your bell" in some way, and then plan how to handle them.

I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific. —Lily Tomlin

You've probably made many more agreements with yourself than you realize, and every single one of them—big or little—is being tracked by a less-than-conscious part of you. These are the "incompletes," or "open loops," which I define as anything pulling at your attention that doesn't belong where it is, the way it is.

The number of coulds, shoulds, might-want-tos, and ought-tos they generate in their minds are way out beyond what they have recorded anywhere else. Many

There is a simple but profound principle that emerges from understanding the way your perceptive filters work: you won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.

I feel the thinness of me, the littleness of me, and the vastness and the weirdness of me. I become the darkness all around, I become the night. Tomorrow I will be a different Davie, and I will be the day.

I let circumstances beyond my control define me. That's not good. That's worse than lying to yourself. It's like you're lying to your soul.

Technically, I'm right up there, I think. But the really great artists have something—I don't think anyone can really quantify it—that I don't. But that's okay. I'm happy with

A squatter for life is inhabiting my mind. And he happens to be me.

It would be a tragedy to spend your whole life desperately wanting to be something that you already were all along.

One of the most freeing things we learn in life is that we don't like everyone, everyone doesn't like us, and that's okay.

That's not how human psychology works. No, we tend to do lots of things without knowing why. We need excuses, though, so we rationalize! If an obvious reason for our behavior isn't readily available, we invent one, preferably one that helps us think better of ourselves.

one of the most fascinating and effective kinds of lying is self-deception.

It takes great wisdom, maturity, and force of will to overcome ingrained human egotism and say -- "Hey, I can fool myself! I might even be wrong, from time to time."