Quotes About Self-awareness

As we come to the end of ourselves, we open the door to discovering the One who created us anew. The One who can whisper to us who we really are as we pilgrim toward our truest and deepest selves.

I myself am more divine than any I see.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.

beings, likely to be left alone, need to be fortified and furnished within themselves, and educationand thought have tended more and more to regard these beings as related to absolute being ...

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself

In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to see mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

It would be nice if we were different people but we are not different people. We are ourselves and we are sure as hell not going to undergo some total transformation at this point.

Because they don't know [the anger is] there inside them. [...] They think they are sweet reasonableness, and it's you that's in the wrong, just by being, and not being like them, or looking like them, or wanting their kind of life.

Nella vita capita di rinunciare alle persone migliori a favore di altre che non ci interessano, che non ci fanno del bene, semplicemente ci capitano tra i passi, ci corrompono con le loro menzogne e ci abituano a diventare conigli.

when we disconnect emotionally and refuse to recognize our own feelings, our Adult abandons our Inner Child. However, when we recognize our feelings and are willing to experience them, we have chosen the intent to love and to learn about ourselves. Then our Adult is connected with our Inner Child. The

One of the hardest things to deal with in a relationship is when you can see the beautiful essence of of your partner, but your partner can't see his or her own essence - or yours.

If you are attracted to someone who has narcissistic tendencies, but are unable to put their narcissism and lack of empathy into a healthy perspective, then this person is isn't for you - not matter how much you love their essence.

Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that... and I think I am fine.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.

The only antidote to the unnerving effects of such incoherence is integrity. People and organizations with integrity are wholly themselves. No aspect of self stands different or apart. At their center is clarity, not conflict. When they go inside to find themselves, there is only one self there.

Anger is like a disease. You can catch it. You can give it.

Her life seemed to her a great engineering work scarcely begun. Lately more excavation than construction had occurred. She had lost a sense of her own invincibility. In that way she was no longer archetypically American.

When I was a child, I first noticed that neither history as I was taught it nor the stories I was told seemed to lead to me. I began to fix them.

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.

Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.