Quotes About Self-awareness

If you have two years of sobriety behind you, then take a drink, you're much more likely to keep on drinking because the mere act of taking a drink—an irrevocable decision—will make you suddenly start to discount all the information and experience you have about the value of sobriety. You'll rationalize (I can control my drinking), minimize (A few drinks won't kill me), and deny (Well, I guess I never really was an alcoholic).

we can reprogram our own brains through focused practice of any new skill, through attending to ourselves in a mindful, noncritical way.

Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just so they can kill them again.-Nathan Hurst

Often what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves.

I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to myself.

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

We all got things under our skin. Everybody does. Like a glass sliver. Can't see nothin' there, but it works its way in deeper and gets to festerin' and hurts so that we're ready to just cut the whole thing out.

The Golden Rule is a two-edged sword. If some of us treated others as we treat ourselves, we would be jailed.

I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you.

what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves.

People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.

Some own up to their past. Some are owned by their past. The wise take what they can from the past and then leave it behind.

what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves. Elise

Nowhere is our vision more distorted than when we turn it on ourselves.

I found myself changing into the very thing I hated. That's what hate does—it remakes us in its image.

Stay away from people who don't know who they are but want you to be just like them. People who'll want to label you. People who'll try to write their fears on your face.

Every basketball wimp needs a lesson, and you seem to think you're somewhere above your true station in life.

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

Do you know how you felt when you would lean all the way back in a chair, and just before you were about to tip over, at the very last second, you'd catch yourself ? That's how I feel all the time.

When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.