Quotes About Self-awareness

One day, you look in the mirror, and see gray hair. One day, you realize there is less of your life left than what you've already lived. And you think, How did this happen so fast? It was only yesterday when I was having my first legal drink, when I was diapering him, when I was young. When this realization hits, you start doing the math. How much time do I have left? How much can I fit into that small space? Some

When the truth came out, and no one wanted to be around her anymore, it stood to reason Josie wouldn't want to be around herself either.

Who we are is about not what we do, but why we tell ourselves we do it.

If you want to feel sorry for yourself,then do it in a way that isn't going to destroy other people's lives.

It was not compassion that led to Daniel's change of heart, and it was not kindness. It was realizing that, against all odds, he had something in common with Jason Underhill. Like Daniel, Jason had learned the hard way that they we are never the people we think we are. We are the ones we pretend, with all our hearts, we can't become.

in order to forgive, you have to remember how you were hurt in the first place. And that in order to forget, you had to accept your role in what had happened.

The only way you can tell how far you've come is to know where you started.

If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you don't bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you.

I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you

It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all.

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask...with nothing beneath it?

it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

It is also a terrifying prospect: that the relationships we use as cornerstones of our personalities are not given by default but are a choice... p 231

I exist," he said softly.

I also know that when you're in the thick of living your life, you don't often get to push pause and reflect on it. It's just really hard to sit in the moment, and not worry if pause is going to turn into stop.

And there is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

Like Daniel, Jason had learned the hard way that we are never the people we think we are.

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask . . . with nothing beneath it?

I wish you could know what it feels like to find the missing piece of you, the thing that makes you stronger.

Loneliness is a mirror and it recognizes itself

It's called acting. It's not all that difficult to be the person people expect you to be. It's harder to remember who your really are.

Boundaries are easier to manage when your values are well-defined.

I don't think I'm special. I want you to know that," Odile says sharply. "I don't think I'm better than everybody else.

I get the whole lost-your-parents thing. Been there. But that don't have to turn you stupid. That's a choice, like wearing green stretch pants.