Quotes About Self-awareness

The future?' came the voice sadly...'And do we really pass anything on to the future, except mirrors of ourselves? What if the future is as painful as the past?' 'That we can never know,'answered the wolf angrily. 'That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe the present. Here and now...What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.

There are only two choices in how you or anyone else experiences the moment—in a state of love, or in a quest for love. Anger, resentment, frustration, sorrow, or any other painful expressions are simply unconscious calls for love. Whether someone is loving you or seemingly attacking you, the proper response is always love.

As an artist you look into yourself to understand the human potential to be all kinds of things that are not necessarily pleasant but are real - a criminal, a murderer, a sadist, a rapist; to be all of these things that many people are. You can't allow yourself to say, 'I'm a different species from those people.' Because you aren't.

Now, I don't consider myself the smartest chip in the cookie, but I ain't the dumbest, either.

If we've deluded ourselves into thinking that our angry mass emails or conversation-stopping talking points serve as a ministry or carry out the purposes of God, we need to slow down and take a breath.

And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.

To fall in love successfully, you don't want too much self-awareness.

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn't aware of his fear.

This is what we can achieve when, as Feynman said, we keep learning more about how not to fool ourselves.

the remark of a Middlesex Regiment officer in 1918. "Intelligence services," the man had said, "are prone to looking up their own arses and wondering why it's dark.

As my Uncle Theodosius always said: never chase women who are a lot smarter than you. You won't catch them, or, what's worse, you might.

I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'

I struggle with the fact that who I am has often been hidden behind stories that I tell myself derived from my perceptions of others' thoughts, statements, actions, or indifference.

If we could be participants in, rather than creators of, our lives, we'd let go of most of the judgements, critiques, fears, and doubts that keep us from loving life.

And once again Einar became exhausted by the world failing to know who he was.

I welcomed who I was and left behind who I was not.

A Rescuer isnt always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholismall the ways we numb outcan rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.

You know that you should not feel this way, but your body keeps getting hijacked into feeling intolerable sensations and emotions.

Be yourself, but disarm potential critics where you can by being self-deprecating.

It's pleasant to be with yourself as long as possible—if you've made yourself into someone worth spending time with."22

the first proof of a stable mind is its ability to stay in one place and enjoy its own company

Mais ce n'est pas grave de ne pas avoir de talent. Il faut simplement avoir le talent de le reconnaître.

Desde el principio supe que yo era un genio. Tenía en mí la dosis de sufrimiento necesaria para la formación del genio. No creo haber cambiado con la fama: son los otros los que cambiaron. Fue el mundo entero el que de pronto comprendió quién era yo.

En ocasiones tenemos que actuar de forma sorprendente, derrapar y salirnos de lo cotidiano en cierto modo, para saber lo que el otro piensa realmente de nosotros.