Quotes About Self-awareness

fact that she couldn't understand herself.

First life lesson: know your fucking worth. When you're about to sell your soul to the devil, get a better price.

no one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

Style requires digesting who we are.

Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration, and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs.

it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration, and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

I wanted to like people. It worried me that I didn't.

El amor enloqueció a Norrie. Espero que nunca me pase a mí.

You don't need to explain me who am I, I know that I am best in my own way.

There is a curious tendency in our modern world to overidentify with our shortcomings and even define ourselves by our mistakes, presumed limitations, and all the things we can't yet do.

Lately, he had been thinking. He'd been thinking that his life didn't reflect everything going on inside his head.

There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.

Regardless of what we think we're teaching, we teach what we are.

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

No man, for any considerable time, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.

Strangely enough, when you get older the things you didn't understand when you were a child start to make sense. "When this happened, I should have done that." "When that happened, I should have said this." those types of things. You start to understand rather than regret. It may be closer to repentance. So it may be that I do want to repent and erase the ignorant self from my childhood.

It takes just as much training to get along with people. Only, training by yourself in the mountains won't do you any good. You need to surround yourself with others. As you get to know them, of course you take the chance that you'll end up hurting them, or they'll end up hurting you. One of those things might very well happen. That's the only way we learn... about others, and about ourselves.

In the end, I'm always like this. Whether I get involved with people or not...before I know it, I've done something wrong and made someone upset. I'm even disappointing myself. How many times? How many more times do I have to let myself down for this to stop?