Quotes About Self-awareness

Knowing yourself and possessing self-awareness allows you to make more mindful decisions that are right for you.

his biggest problem was his need for a problem.

Larry: She doesn't want to be happy. Dan: Everybody wants to be happy. Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.

Thinking and contents are to be left alone. The "I" is not to intervene as if it exercised mastery over these contents.

the only correct approach, is to attend to the anger so that you may learn what it is. Anger is nothing you have been told.

The first step to knowing God's plan for our lives is the commitment to see ourselves as we really are.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

Feelings don't try to kill you, even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for its consequences, you're responsible for treating it. But...you're not responsible for causing it. You're not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumor.

Know yourself and go in swinging.

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

I did not come to heal her, the monster said. I came to heal you.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

I'm just a girl." "It is tragic how well you have been taught to say that with sadness rather than triumph.

It's a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that's what gets lost in all that Noise.

You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month's time exactly.

But wherever I am, whatever this world is, I've just got to be sure I'm me and that's what's real...Know yourself and go in swinging. If it hurts when you hit it, it might be real, too.

I wonder if realizing you're not sure about stuff is what makes you a grown up?

What kind of person am I when seen by you?

She regards me quietly and then she quotes something Mistress Coyle once said to me. "We are the choices we make." It takes me a second to realize she's just said goodbye.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both. (Fight it) by speaking the truth. If you speak the truth, you will be able to face whatever comes.

Know yourself, he thinks, as they sail past his house. And go in swinging.

I'd keep my eyes open, remember who I was, and go in swinging

Just because my thoughts and feelings don't spill out into the world in a shout that never stops doesn't mean I don't have them.