Quotes About Self-awareness

I should remember that I be just as worthy now as I will be when this is done.

the development of a sense of self.

clear that she and her daughter were two separate people with very different life experiences, decide how much of her history to share with her daughter, and, finally, commit to changing her own behavior.

Enthusiastic kids who feel loved and valued for their particular skills and interests, who are both self-aware and aware of the needs of others, who can work hard, delay gratification when necessary, and reward themselves when appropriate, who find life both fun and meaningful, are kids who are most likely to be both happy and successful. Deeply happy and authentically successful.

But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.

Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me.

I asked her how she did it once, how she understood the world so clearly. She told me that it was a matter of keeping very still and showing no emotions, leaving room for others to reveal themselves.

But there was no wound she could give me that I had not already given myself.

But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.

Most men do not know me for what I am." "Most men in my experience are fools," he said.

Little by little I began to listen better: to the sap moving in the plants, to the blood in my veins. I learned to understand my own intention, to prune and to add, to feel where the power gathered and speak the right words to draw it to its height. That was the moment I lived for, when it all came clear at last and the spell could sing with its pure note, for me and me alone.

That old sickening feeling returned: that every moment of my life I had been a fool.

Too late, I thought. Too late for all the things I should have known. I had made so many mistakes that I could not find my way back through their tangle to the first one.

I never claimed to be good.

Everyone looked at me, because I was the most beautiful woman in the town. I don't say this to boast, because there is nothing in it to boast of. It was nothing I did myself.

Nothing she says has a single meaning, nor a single intention, yet she is steady. She knows herself.

What was I truly? In the end, I could not bear to know.

Two children he had had, and he had not seen either clearly. But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.

I sifted and resifted my memories of Aeëtes, all those hours we had leaned against each other. That old sickening feeling returned: that every moment of my life I had been a fool.

Know yourself is carved above their doors. But I had been a stranger to myself, turned to stone for no reason I could name.

A true-made bow, Odysseus had called her. A fixed star. A woman who knew herself. "I asked her how she did it once, how she understood the world so clearly. She told me that it was a matter of keeping very still and showing no emotions, leaving room for others to reveal themselves.

but there was no wound she could give me that i had nit already given myself

perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.

I had made so many mistakes that I could not find my way back through their tangle to the first one.