Quotes About Self-awareness

When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

when you are running away from something, it often ends up coming with you, especially if the thing you are running away from is your own behavior.

stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the

Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.

Everyone who's psychologically normal thinks they're the hero.

She wrote that she, too, always felt an outsider "...even to myself.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Omdat men zal weten dat over de mens niets te bewijzen valt, dat er van hem in doen en laten, in wezen en verschijning, in heden en verleden, nog geen schim valt te bekennen van wat hij is en is geweest. Wij zijn niets anders dan de strandvonders van ons eigen leven, brokstukken verzamelend langs de zee der vergetelheid. In onze hand lopen wij met de verroeste spijkers van een groot, gezonken schip - en wij denken dat dit oudroest een horloge is.

Je zou een tweede hoofd moeten hebben om te begrijpen wat dat éne hoofd is, maar ik heb er maar een, hier is het in mijn handen, ik houd het vast op een manier waarop een mens nooit iets anders vasthoudt.

En zo kom je in de loop van de jaren (...) erachter dat je meestal niet jezelf bent, niet symmetrisch met jezelf, maar dat je het grootste deel van je leven in een aantal vreemde incarnaties bestaat voor welke je alle verantwoordelijkheid van de hand zou wijzen als je kon.

Dagboekschrijvers als ik schrijven hun dagboek met de onuitgesproken bedoeling zichzelf als een ander voor zich te kunnen zien… Eigenlijk zijn ze geen dagboekschrijvers, maar zelfportrettisten, of een mengeling van die twee.

En onmiddellijk daarop overrompelde mij de overtuiging van mijn eigen hinderlijkheid, wist ik hoe onmogelijk ik me had gemaakt, als een klein kind dat op visite is bij vreemden en op het tafelkleed kotst.

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.

To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

More generally, when we find ourselves irritated by someone's shortcomings, we should pause to reflect on our own shortcomings.

It will help us to overcome our anger, says Seneca, if we remind ourselves that our behavior also angers other people: "We are bad men living among bad men, and only one thing can calm us—we must agree to go easy on one another.

One sign of maturity is a realization of the extent to which you, either intentionally or unintentionally, make life difficult for those around you. Consequently, you should keep in mind the words of Seneca: "we are bad men living among bad men; and only one thing can calm us—we must agree to go easy on one another."1

He adds that the worse a man is, the less likely he is to accept constructive criticism.

According to Seneca, "A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is." He therefore recommends that we "do away with complaint about past sufferings and with all language like this: 'None has ever been worse off than I. What sufferings, what evils have I endured!'" After all, what point is there in "being unhappy, just because once you were unhappy?"21

One sign of maturity is a realization of the extent to which you, either intentionally or unintentionally, make life difficult for those around you. Consequently, you should keep in mind the words of Seneca: "we are bad men living among bad men; and only one thing can calm us—we must agree to go easy on one another.

We should become self-aware: We should observe ourselves as we go about our daily business, and we should periodically reflect on how we responded to the day's events. How did we respond to an insult? To the loss of a possession? To a stressful situation? Did we, in our responses, put Stoic psychological strategies to work? •