Quotes About Self-awareness

We rob ourselves of immeasurable joy when we compare what we do know about ourselves with what we don't know about someone else.

What happens is our lives become so heavily oriented around the expectations of others that we become more and more like them and less and less like ourselves. We become split. I was split. I had this person I knew I was made to be, yet it was mixed in with all of these other ... people. As the lights were turned on, I saw I had all of this guilt and shame because I wasn't measuring up to the image of the perfect person I had in my head.

If the only answer ever to anything is You really need to do more and try harder your heart will eventually wear out. Along with your body. And your soul.

We create these identities around our roles and titles and job descriptions and achievements. They give our lives shape and form and meaning and definition. Ever so gradually over time our understanding of ourselves gets shaped by what we do and what we've done. We cling, we grasp, we hold tightly to these identities.

It is your responsibility to stop listening to voices that hinder your ongoing growth and maturity.

The worrying thing is that he was well aware of his slide, but didn't seem to want — or be able — to do anything to help it.

Laugh at yourself. It's the single most important aspect of surviving this crazy business. And that's from the man that gave Cap[tain America] boobs.

Darren realized, not an act of violence he had committed. But rather a consummation; a triumph. Again

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

And suddenly I knew I was people and could not stop laughing.

If tempted by something that feels "altruistic," examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!

He was delighted to recognize his own human name on two of the papers; he always got an odd thrill out of reading it, as if he were two places at once.

I never do anything I don't want to. Nor does anyone, but in my case I know it.

Just a man, with a face-shaped face

It's a shock to have it proved to you that you can't resist seducing yourself.

because man is the animal that laughs at himself.

The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together!

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion, in the long run these are the only people who count.

Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry. N.B.: Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

The moment I put it on, that suit became an old, familiar, and valued friend—and I became taller and wider across the shoulders. It could not have fit better if it had been made on my body. It knew things about me I wouldn't learn for years yet, and approved of them all.

Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don't want. Think

But how, from the viewpoint of a Martian, did man differ from other animals? Would a race that could levitate and god knows what else be impressed by engineering? If so would the Aswan Dam or a thousand miles of coral reef win first prize? Man's self awareness, sheer conceit. There was no way to prove that sperm whales and sequoias were not philosophers and poets exceeding any human merit?