Quotes About Self-awareness

This takes a bit of getting used to," he said. "All this smiling and good spirits. You've never been one of those lighthearted fellows." "I'm not lighthearted, I'm . . . wholehearted.

Start behaving like the mature woman you are, and acknowledge the fact that you have flaws. And give the poor devil a chance to prove that he can love you regardless.

No one can tell you what your path is . . . but someday you'll discover it. . . and it won't be at all what you expected.

My son . . . guilt, in proper measure, can be a useful emotion. However, when indulged to excess it becomes self-defeating, and even worse, tedious.

Be true to yourself and your values.

I want to try to live my own values as consciously and purposefully as I can.

It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.

I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.

I suck at golf and a variety of other things I go out and do with my friends.

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature.

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

Do you want to be strangely various, or do you want to be purely yourself? Either way, revere no one.

I roll my eyes at the grandstanding blowhards who have 'fixed' themselves, but I keep up with the gizmos and apps that track people's various rhythms. I'm no lifelogger or body-hacker, but I'm curious, and I want to be in-tune enough to know what's really the matter so I can level up and be at my most awesome.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

I am not a trained swimmer nor I know how to drive a vehicle.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

When 'Ally McBeal' started, I went, 'Oh, my God.' It's like what I was doing. 'Bridget Jones' was in the same vein. I identify with all of them.

I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.

Gerald Ford brought to the political arena no demons, no hidden agenda, no hit list or acts of vengeance. He knew who he was, and he didn't require consultants or gurus to change him.