Quotes About Self-awareness

I hate being carted around like equipment, even though technically I am actually equipment.

being in control of the situation was really important because otherwise it was in control of me

Overse added, "Just remember you're not alone here." I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

The introvert is pressured daily, almost from the moment of awakening, to respond and conform to the outer world.

For introverts who have a high level of internal activity, anything coming from the outside raises their intensity level index quickly. It's kind of like being tickled—the sensation goes from feeling good and fun to "too much" and uncomfortable in a split second.

Points to Ponder • 75 percent of the world is extroverted. • Being introverted affects all areas of your life. • Nothing is wrong with you. • Introverts feel drained and overstimulated. • Being introverted is something to be celebrated.

Lighthouses Point the Way Home This above all: To thine own self be true… —William Shakespeare

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. —Patricia Hampl S

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'

A major problem with many codependency/recovery books is the belief that going back to childhood to find the why's of present feelings and behavior and even to find where patterns developed will bring relief and transformation.

that the human race would become extinct if every member of it could see themselves having sex?

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

I looked you up, Arkady. You have a checkered career." "I'm flattered. I was unaware of having any career at all.

It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves.

looks promising and I've taken it up again on occasion. But whenever I did, I realized why I'd not carried on in the first place – in the same way that a specialist might say of a child, that one's not going to grow up right. I could tell that it wouldn't develop into a finished picture.

We use our brains too little, and when we do, it is only to make excuses for our reflexes and our instincts.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

As LEGO found out more than a decade ago, the question "What are you most proud of?" can yield surprising and transformative answers.

In general, we hang things—paintings, posters, mirrors—at the height where we best appreciate them. A painting is always slightly higher than the direct approach. We hang mirrors in such a way that we take in our faces, hair, neck and shoulders.

We are afraid, for example, of letting others know more about us than we know about ourselves, fearing most of all that our masks will slip, and will lose control, letting others see us as we truly are.

men and women have two ages: a chronological age, and an emotional age they feel inside. (I'll explore this subject in more detail in a later chapter.) Men typically conceal evidence of their younger selves in drawers, or buried inside online folders, whereas women are less embarrassed about publicly showcasing their younger selves, and express it openly