Quotes About Self-awareness

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

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

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all? (73)

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

Daily I learn — sometimes painfully, other times with glee — that mine is a path never meant to be paved.

You are learning what you aren't writing, and this is helping you find out what you are writing. —Anne Lamott

As a software developer, you are your own worst enemy. The sooner you realize that, the better off you'll be.

The true defining situation for a person is what they do when they are alone and don't have to do anything else. What do they do? Do they do frivolous things? That's when you define what you are.

Remember who you are. - Kim Clark Dean of Harvard Business School.

I am not the kind of person women fall in love with. I sort of grow on them, like a fungus. I need to either work alongside somebody or take a series of classes with her -- you know, get to know her over a period of time to let her see that my goofiness is actually an attribute, not a fatal flaw.

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

In some way, my saying that I'm not here now feels sort of like an acknowledgment that I am here now, only feeling that I'm not.

I notice that when I'm generous, accepting, and loving toward myself, all that's reflected out into the world. The more I cut myself slack, the more I don't judge myself for not being other than I am, the more I'm aware of who I am, see it, honor it, and respect it, the more I do all those things for others. I push them less and I respect their different rhythms.

up in the morning, go to the bathroom, pee, brush your teeth, look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself. Do it every morning to start off the day, as a practice.

examination. "Sometimes

When your brain is always engaged, when your neurons are always firing, when you find yourself in a continual mode of reacting and responding, instead of steering and directing, the best and brightest solutions that you are capable of producing rarely see the light of day.

True healing is not the fixing of the broken but the rediscovery of the unbroken

Reach out for the light, yes, but love your shadows too.

No one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.

People bring their own shit to the way they see things. If they don't believe what you're doing is right, that's their choice. But the choice has more to do with them than with you. Don't worry about it. You made your own choice.

As a kid who had geared much of his life around the concerns of others, he was neither accustomed to nor comfortable fielding inquiries about himself.

it was the nature of being a person, and everything they did—every single thing, in school or at home, with others or alone, conscious or unconscious, meaningful or nonsensical, every single thing—was geared toward discovering what exactly it meant to be a person. The meaning would always elude them, because elusiveness was in fact its very heart.

Why am I choosing to be with these people?" Consciously or unconsciously, you may be choosing to hold yourself back—to be less than you are capable of becoming. By the way, I think