Quotes About Self-awareness

can acknowledge and recognize your feelings—to yourself and to others—but you have a choice of when, where, and whether to express your feelings or to act on them.

As [a man] thin-keth in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7 KJV, italics added).

Our outer world reflects our inner commitments. If we want to know what we are really committed to, all we have to do is look at our lives. We are, whether we are aware of it or not, always creating exactly what we are most committed to.

And just in case you interpret boundary setting as callous and unloving, I want to be clear: naming my limits doesn't give me permission to walk all over anyone else's boundaries or refuse to be generous. In fact, I'm much more attuned to the boundaries of others now that I'm right with my own. And as for generosity, I'm now generous out of the desire to give rather than out of some fear that I won't be loved if I don't.

When something is "off" in your life, you know it. And it takes an incredible amount of energy to continue the denial—energy that could be used toward letting go of the old and inviting in the new. That

I see the quintessential task of the clinician as one of coming to know him-or herself sufficiently to be able to register the experience of the other in progressively more profound and also more useful ways. This process begins with our own discomfort at finding ourselves sitting in the chair that has somehow become designated as "the authority": the person ostensibly in charge of something we haven't even begun to comprehend. —MARILYN CHARLES (in press)

I have often noticed that when women look at themselves in every reflection, and take furtive peeps into their looking-glasses, it is hardly ever, as is generally supposed, from vanity, but much more often from a feeling that all is not quite as it should be

Without going within, I go without.

In order to grieve—I needed to "unlearn" the way I learned to ignore my agony.

I feel more at peace with being angry than practicing forgiveness. That never was an honest emotion for me. It was always someone else's concept of what I should do.

I never learned how to process my own pain.

I had been conditioned to down play my own abuse,

I always related to the pain of others; I had become numb and unaware of my own.

healing comes down to forgiving yourself—knowing you deserve to be respected, you deserve to be loved.

Feeling my anger and sadness were beyond my comprehension. These were skills I didn't learn as a child and didn't even know I lacked.

Self-compassion is such a basic skill, I instinctively taught it to my own children. Yet, I failed to recognize I didn't have it for myself.

In a rare moment of self-awareness, the young woman even understood that her dependence was probably unhealthy. Henry, she declared, was a man 'whom I love too much for my peace.

There are no miraculous responses that will make intense feelings of fear, rage, sadness, and jealousy just disappear in a cloud of smoke.

We often think contentment is something that happens to us, rather than something that we take pains to learn.

Georgie) Why is it that you always want to run after the one that goes off in a huff, and push away the one who is clinging to you?

Don't twist your voice while singing, You will hate how it sound when you are quiet

That those who live narrow lives have only themselves to blame when they find themselves shocked.

No man should be told he's a god while he still lives,' he said at last. 'It doesn't promote good thinking.

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.