Quotes About Self-awareness

I mentally began composing a list of words that began with F: Frey. Father. False. Friend. Frick. Frack. And some others.

My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn't transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy?]

Just curious how much I'm going for these days, Leo said. I mean, I can understand not being as pricey as Percy or Jason, maybe...but am I worth, like, two Franks, or three Franks?

Okay, do not call me Aquaman. That's even worse than waterboy.

The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.

Like your zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.' 'No, stupid,' Leo said. 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.

Perseus, you are not the hero.

I apologize for apologizing. Thank you.

But my point is... I was projecting my anger onto someone else, someone safer. I think you might be doing some of the same thing now, Meg. You're raging at Caligula because it's safer than raging at your stepfather. ... Anger is good. It means you're making progress. But be aware that you might be angry right now at the wrong person. I don't want you charging blindly into battle against this particular emperor.

Exercise is nothing more than a depressing reminder that one is not a god.

I am a monster. Don't say that. It is okay. I will be good monster. Then you will not have to be mad.

we are product of our past but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.

Humility is not putting yourself down or denying your strengths; rather, it is being honest about your weaknesses. The more honest you are, the more of God's grace you get.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

A. W. Tozer said, "The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.

A young man in his twenties wrote, "I feel like a failure because I'm struggling to become something, and I don't even know what it is. All I know how to do is to get by. Someday, if I discover my purpose, I'll feel I'm beginning to live.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

I'm always so glad, Sylvie murmured, that I don't have to take a turn at being other people.

Aren't I happy?' Ursula puzzled. What do you think? Ursula didn't know. She wasn't sure that she had a yardstick against which to measure happiness or unhappiness. She had obscure memories of elation, of falling into darkness, but they belonged to that world of shadows and dreams that was ever-present and yet almost impossible to pin down.

You have an eye," Miss Gillies told her. I have two, she thought.)

It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how aware a person is of the options.