Quotes About Self-awareness

It won't surprise you to hear that I'm a skeptical person. I don't even believe half the garbage that tumbles from my own mouth.

Sometimes I don't feel like writing at all...It seems so selfish, writing.

Il existe trois étapes vers la perfection pour les hommes. la première consiste à te connaitre, comme Dieu te connait -et je ne connais personne qui ait une telle connaissance de soi- , la deuxième consiste à ce que tu sois avec Dieu et à ce qu'Il soit, et la troisième consiste à ce que tu ne sois plus et que tout soit Lui.

The alpha male must not be a wife beta.

I was fourteen years old then and a person can feel old and wise at that age even when he really had no idea, and what he took for wisdom was only a precocious intuition arrived at without humility, just a little shit working things out for himself.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

Well now I know I can control my tongue, my temper & my appetites, but that's it. I have no effect on weather, traffic or luck. I can't make good things happen; I can't keep anybody safe; I can't influence the future & I can't fix up the past. What a relief!" from book A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas

Divorce often forces people to grow up. You get over your divorce by confronting the kind of relationship there was in the marriage. You realize there aren't any victims. You recognize your own complicity in the breakup. Then you learn how to carry on a relationship that works. You can't do this intellectually; you learn through experience.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.

I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying; and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with any one who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

The key to your happines is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious." "God will judge us by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

just as she kept her thoughts to herself, I was learning to do the same. This was what growing up was about: HIDE the corpse, DON'T bare your heart, DO make assumptions about the motives of others.

I realized that my father's absence is our slippers. In order to start to get rid of your slippers, you have to admit they are yours, and if you do, then they will get rid of themselves.

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.