Quotes About Self-awareness

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.

Écouter, c'est d'abord une attitude. C'est chercher à comprendre l'autre avec ses souffrances, ses désirs et son espérance, sans le juger ni le condamner. Écouter, c'est mettre l'autre en valeur pour lui donner vie et l'aider à avoir confiance en lui...Quand je suis trop centré sur mes projets, quand j'ai besoin de me prouver, j'ai davantage du mal à écouter

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.

Believe me," St. Vincent de Paul said to his priests, "we will never be any use in doing God's work until we become thoroughly convinced that, of ourselves, we are better fitted to ruin everything than to make a success of it.

Could it be, God forbid, that nationality is only a superficial, insignificant layer of the onion that is your being? What would you think of the man who would say of himself 'I am an overcoat' just because he happened to be wearing one?

And then one afternoon as I confided my woes to her likeness, an unknown face interposed itself between us. Reflected in the glass I saw the head of a man who seemed to have emerged from a vat of formaldehyde. His mouth was twisted, his nose damaged, his hair tousled, his gaze full of fear. One eye was sewn shut, the other goggled like the doomed eye of Cain. For a moment I stared at that dilated pupil, before I realized it was only mine.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

As your lover describes you, so you are.

I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.

If I don't look in the mirror, I can go around thinking I'm gorgeous when I'm not.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.

Il est facile de choisir les rideaux les plus jolis, les meubles les plus parfaits, de faire les seuls mouvements d'appareil possibles, si l'on sait d'avance que J'on est doué pour ça. De la part d'un artiste, trop bien se connaître, c'est un peu céder à la facilité. Ce qui est difficile, au contraire, c'est d'avancer en terre inconnue, de reconnaître le danger, de prendre des risques, d'avoir peur.

It is not self defining but by You

She knew that hearing bad things about yourself is one of the punishments for eavesdropping.

The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive.

Solitude helps you figure out where everybody else stops and you begin

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

The further you move away from experiencing your emotions, the more distant you become from others, as well as from yourself.

The key to coping with questionable emotions is knowing that we are in control of them, and not the other way around.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.