Quotes About Self-awareness

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.

Vooruitgang is een moreel oordeel van een wezen dat zichzelf o zo graag in de spiegel bekijkt.

Zelfkennis en zelfzorg. Knellende schoenen geven blaren, wandelen wordt hinken, hinken wordt strompelen. Wil ik opnieuw stevig in mijn schoenen staan, dan moet ik mijn voeten serieus nemen. Waarom heb ik blaren, hoe krijg ik die weg? Welk schoeisel past er bij mijn voeten? Welke schoenen wil ik voor welke gelegenheid? Koop ik schoenen voor mijn voeten of voor de ogen van de buitenwereld? Of voor de ogen van één iemand in de buitenwereld?

Onszelf leren kennen als deel van een groter geheel, samen met anderen, zal borg staan voor een betere zelfzorg die niet los gezien kan worden van zorg voor de ander. Wellicht komt er dan ook meer ruimte voor intimiteit.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.1 RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

I is what I is.

The truth about people had not much to do with what they said about themselves, or what others said about them.

I imagine there's a timid animal inside me...When it's afraid, I feel it tremble. It can't hear. It only knows the fear it feels. It doesn't have memory or an idea of the future. It lives in the present—the right now—and I try to remember it is only a part of myself, a small frightened thing I can pity. When I'm able to do that, something happens. The animal grows less afraid.

Everybody's intrigued by someone comfortable in their own skin because most of us aren't.

Grown-ups always seem to be worried about money, or politics, or just stuff that has physical presence. It's like somewhere along the way they lost the ability to think about what's inside them.

Truly humble people are grounded in reality; they neither preen under illusions of greatness nor suffer agonies of self-hatred.

Monday: Cover Your Mirrors for a Whole Morning

We can only go to the limits of ourselves. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone.

Sorry was maybe the loneliest feeling of all, I understood, because it only brought you back to yourself.

I wasn't raised to acknowledge my own feelings, let alone stick up for myself like that.

Maybe that's the secret to surviving all sorts of trouble, knowing who you are apart from it, I mean.

We can only go to the limits of ourselves—I've learned that if nothing else. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone. - Beryl Markham

You need to learn to live with yourself, not others," he went on. "That's the difficult part. When you learn to accept your own nature, it will start to feel peaceful, not frantic.

Can anyone tell you when you're grown up?" Another

I've let you run too wild and you know it," my father said when I went to him, asking to be left alone.

Who knows what anyone deserves? We like to play judge and jury, but we're all a rotten mess under our skins.

We can only go the limits of ourselves-I've learned that if nothing else. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone.

We can only go to the limits of ourselves—I've learned that if nothing else. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone." "She may have to sell the