Quotes About Self-awareness

Don't forget, the real glow up is internal.

For the first time perhaps ever, I am not denying the truth of all of my cracks. I am living them.

I've been called worse," he assures me, "and perhaps I am guilty as charged. I guess it depends on who is defining what constitutes a lady's man." The statement strikes me as true beyond its intention. How many of us allow others to define us and thus we become what they want us to be, not what we should be or could be?

They don't get to tell you who I am." His voice is a rough growl, low and tight. "I do. I tell you and I show you, so you get the truth—not their fabrication of it." A muscle in his jaw flexes. "Understand?

Know what you can bend to your will, and don't waste energy on what you can't. It'll suck you dry, like it is right now.

I know, deep in my heart and soul, that I have to own how I allow myself to process life, how I allow events and people to affect me. I define my character. They do not.

And if you yourself are incompatible with your view of the world?

Do you ever wish to quit the daily comedy of transforming into the I-speaker without abandoning the wilderness of sensing? The sensation isn't morbid; it is ultimately disinterested.

Fact: I don't know of a single girl who doesn't wish the show-it-all boxer-shorts phenomenon would go away as well. Guys, we just don't want to see your underwear. Truthfully, we believe that there is a direct correlation between how much underwear you show and how much you've got upstairs, if you know what I mean.

The look he was going for was Friendly Suburban Dad, because that's what he was, but he suspected he'd achieved only Cialis Guy.

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Sometimes I hated it when I was right, but I always hated it when someone else was. Especially when their being right made me wrong. I'm irrational that way. It's something I'm working on.

You'll never find a worse critic than the one inside your own skin, or a more difficult one to silence," I told Pieras, by means of explanation. "The best you can hope for is to teach it some manners.

One simple exercise you can do is spend an hour alone at your desk and write out all of your habits. Use one side of the paper for what you consider to be good habits, and the other side for what you consider to be bad habits.

I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it.

Oh, child. The best thing is to know. I always tell 'em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain't no other good way of livin'.

The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

I always assume people's behaviors are a reaction to something I've done, not that they're just doing their thing.

A woman's past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things." I

I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.

When I'm with him, I feel like a completely different person. I like the way this person feels. And then I wonder - is this the person I really am? How can you know for certain what parts of yourself are authentic and what parts you've invented to make life bearable?

But ain't it always the way, Birdie, that the easiest faults to find in other people are the ones you got yourself?

The funny thing about having people believe good things about you is that, without even realizing it, you want to make those things true.

hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things.