Quotes About Self-awareness

I think, How innocent we are of our mistakes and how responsible we are for them.

Don't confront me with my failures. I have not forgotten them.

In my first group, a counselor asked me why i'm here. he said, 'What's your problem? I said ' i'm a drug addict and an alcoholic.' he shook his head. 'no.' he said, 'that's how you've been treating your problem. what is your problem?

Deep down, you know you're him.

You can never make any progress in life unless you actually understand that which operates at a higher level than you, so that you can then try to rise to that higher level. Most people just assume that they are already at the highest level, and so they criticize everything at odds with their beliefs, including the very highest content possible, and thus they never learn, never grow, never evolve.

To psychologically kill something, you must integrate it. To psychologically empower something, you need only avoid it, deny it, repress it, project it, and so on.

Resist trying to be what other people want you to be. Anyone in your life who tries to change you is really saying: as I can't control myself I will try and control you. By the same token, don't attempt to control other people's behaviour - it's not your place.

Whenever you feel compelled to put others first at the expense of yourself, you are denying your own reality, your own identity.

I must admit I hadn't realized my knees were so sexy.

J'ai tenté d'être face à elle un homme fort conscient de ses faiblesses, un homme vêtu qui ne craint pas sa nudité, un homme droit qui connaît ses courbes et ses fractures. Tout ce chemin que j'ai fait pour la rencontrer m'a permis de me parcourir moi-même, c'est long de se parcourir.

As she took each step a little bubble of wind puffed out of her saggy bottom. It sounded like a duck quacking. Either she didn't realise or was extremely good at pretending she didn't realise.

Say goodnight, Eric," he said. "Goodnight, Eric," repeated the boy. "WAIT! I am Eric!

If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist.

when a person hides their motives, they hide themselves;

My hopes was that by me writing my demons out, I'd be conquering one of the most important steps… admittance.

Never be too willing to expose yourself to your weaknesses. Find ways to curve your weaknesses by forming buffers between your vices and your heart.

Alone, we live in our bodies as a question rather than a statement.

To be alone for any length of time is to shed an outer skin. The body is inhabited in a different way when we are alone than when we are with others. Alone, we live in our bodies as a question rather than a statement.

beginning well means seating ourselves in the body again, catching up with ourselves and the person we have become since we last tried to begin.

Only those who put more energy into self-pity than into paying attention are truly marooned.

It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves.

Nobody involved in a conflict thinks they're the villain.

She said, "Why do you, like, hate yourself?" "If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?

I stopped at a red light, feeling foolish as always for stopping at an intersection at an hour when the streets are deserted, just because a colored lightbulb told me to. Society has got me so fucking trained. I rubbed my eyes and groaned and felt utterly alone in the world.