Quotes About Self-awareness

Know thyself! That was the best joke ever perpetrated. A steaming universe of germ-cells, a maelstrom of animal forces, of which he himself, his personality, was only the collective gleam.

Epictetus stated, "When I see an anxious person, I ask myself, what do they want? For if a person didn´t want something outside of their own control, why would they be stricken by anxiety?

And if you can't make your life as you'd wish it, try, at the very least, to accomplish this much: do not make it less than what it already is by mixing too excessively with the masses, by hanging around and endlessly chattering. Don't cheapen your life by parading it around, hauling it everywhere and laying it out there for the dreary humbug of familiars and fellowship, until it comes to feel like a curious dead weight.

o que mais nos faz sofrer talvez seja justamente a relevância excessiva que atribuímos à nossa presença no mundo, pois essa relevância é a pedra de fundação de todas nossas obstinadas repetições, é graças a ela que insistimos em ser sempre "iguais a nós mesmos" (sendo que, no caso, essa expressão não tem um sentido positivo).

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another transformed both self-perception and, through this transformation, behavior. The maxim "fake it till you make it" gains empirical support.

It's funny I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

Truthfully, I'm still Corey Hart, Dad, first.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

When I feel angry, I want to say something mean, or yell, or hit. But feeling like I want to is not the same as doing it. Feeling can't hurt anyone or get me into trouble, but doing can." (Bunny from picture book)

Most days I woke up brimming with a sudden terror--that I'd forgotten to do essential things, that I'd never make friends in Colorado, that my appearance as an adult in the world was only a thin candy shell hiding a tiny, rattling center of incompetent thirteen-year-old, or worse yet, nothing at all.

The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind.

Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

In a world where everyone is trying to be someone else, it's important to remember who you are and what you stand for.

It is good to be connected to family and friends, but when we cannot resist the urge to check updates or upload a photo, we are veering toward idolatry. Idols serve our needs according to our schedule. When we call, they answer. They give us a false sense of being in control. But over time, the relationship reverses. We end up attending to their needs, centering our lives on their priorities and agendas.

Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it?

Craig: 'When I used to drink, I binge drank…and I'm kind of like that with Doctor Who. I save up a lot of it on the DVR and then like I get my big scarf on and my hat and I stay at home and just watch them.' Neil Gaiman: 'You watch them, you wake up in the morning hating yourself and swearing to never do it again.' Craig: 'It's like you know me, man.

I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important.

It must be depressing to have your sole purpose in the universe be pointing out other people's mistakes. Am I right, Internet trolls, gossip columnists, and clergymen?

Every family possesses at least one off-the-charts challenging person. If you're tempted to tell me that yours doesn't, then I hate to be the one to break it to you, but maybe you are the one!