Quotes About Self-awareness

Appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

La gente que tiene el corazón en el cuello, en los labios, en los pantalones, en fin, en cualquier otro lugar que no sea en su lugar, acusa de no tener corazón a quien sí lo tiene en su lugar. Después de haber buscado en vano ese corazón en cada uno de los lugares que ellos conocen para el corazón, se convencen de que no tiene corazón; pues él lo tiene justamente en su lugar y ahí no se les ocurre buscarlo[1].

Like physicians we have a duty to 'do no harm' (..). I argue that we can only do this through recognition of our own weaknesses and a willingness to understand how we might be tempted into positions of false omnipotence, moral superiority and boundary violations. (..) Like Guggenbuhl-Craig, I believe there is a 'bogeyman' within every therapist, longing for control (1971, p. 55).

Robert—who knew quite well that he had the empathic sensitivity of a whelk—did not expect to have any such difficulties himself.

He liked to think of himself as fighting trim. At this point though, he was more like pacifist fat. Or at least he felt that way, stuffed to the gills.

There's a difference between owning your choices and blaming yourself.

What holds us back from consistently performing at the levels we're capable of? To find the answer, we have to look inside. No matter what we're trying to figure out, the biggest barriers are often in our own minds:

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you." — Anthony De Mello, Jesuit priest and author

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that. Haruki Murakami

One of the biggest obstacles that holds us back are those excuses. The little lies we tell ourselves that limit who we are and what we ultimately accomplish.

You are responsible for what you believe, how you feel, and how you behave.

Practice becoming aware of what you're thinking (i.e., believing) and know that, at any moment, you get to decide if you want to continue believing that thought.

Everyone is always doing the best they can. Blame and resentment have no place here. But it's important to recognize that, whether positive or negative, our environment is one of the most significant sources of our current beliefs.

She sighed again, wondering how she'd be described as a character in one of her much-loved romance books.

But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless: I am living. I remember you.

Unfortunately, possession brings the conviction that one is right. Just as the Russians are convinced that the Western world is the destructive element, in the same way if the animus catches us, we can be sure that things are like that. The most important thing is to know this. Like most of my brothers and sisters, when I let myself be possessed by the animus, I do not realize; I am convinced that is my opinion and not my animus.

A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.

Are you willing to take responsibility for your mistakes — and for the attitudes and actions that led to them?' Then he said, 'Are you willing — however begrudgingly — to forgive yourself, and even laugh at yourself?' And finally, 'Will you look for value in your experiences, especially the most difficult ones?' Bottom line, 'Are you willing to learn from what happened and make changes accordingly?

A — Aware. Am I in Judger?

When two people are in Judger, the one who wakes up first has an advantage. That person can choose to go Learner and turn the situation around for both of them.

Eu vivi muito à sombra da agonia de algumas pessoas. Hoje sou uma agoniada e ninguém me aguenta. Sou em estado de porre sem nunca ter bebido.