Quotes About Self-awareness

I am happy because my happiness does not depend on things, but on my thoughts.

Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts.

Secretly we fear ourselves, not the fear itself.

What others think does not matter. What you think about you is what matters.

What you think about yourself is more important than what others think about you.

We might like to think of ourselves as autonomous beings who get to decide who we are going to be, but we are likely much more malleable than we think. We are often defined by the structure that keeps us captive. In some ways our desires are so socially constructed that they can't rightfully be called our own.

There is no one I find as tiresome as myself. Talk about ubiquitous. It's so difficult to find someplace quiet apart from myself, hard to keep me out of the room for even a moment. I just keep following myself around wherever I go, monotonously chirping.

When labels start coming into our heads (loathsome, ugly, loser, winner), we should question them—recognize a label as the insubstantial thing it is, and let it go.

Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?

It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are, without any self-deception or illusion, that a light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognized.

I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!

I'm not hugely experienced with relationships, but I am hugely experienced with myself - and more than anything I value my piece of mind. I don't like going to sleep with knots in my stomach, or ruining the present by worrying about the future. In a life that is pretty complicated, I like to keep my own head space as simple as possible.

Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.

Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

Winnicott, I think, would have enjoyed the observation made by novelist Fay Weldon: "The greatest advantage of not having children must be that you can go on believing you are a nice person. Once you have children, you understand how wars start." All relationships

I have spoken before about the "yes" and the "no" alive in every person who seeks therapy. Listening to Pearl I heard the following: Yes, I would like to confide in you. No, that would displace my loyal family. Yes, I want to get help. No, that would prove I needed it. Yes, I want to change my life. No, I don't. All the things I do and everything I am have taken me this far.

the observation made by novelist Fay Weldon: "The greatest advantage of not having children must be that you can go on believing you are a nice person. Once you have children, you understand how wars start.

Maybe it is time to get over your daddy issues and just deal with it.

Mirror, mirror, shining bright, bring more clarity to my sight.

When you start writing, your incredulity at the childish, incompetent, graceless thing you've done is shattering. One of the advantages of having experience as a writer - and there aren't many, in face I can't think of any other - is that you know you can make the horrible thing better, then you can make it better again, then you can make it better again. And you may not be able to make it good, but at least it's not going to be what you're looking at now.

When I was in high school, all my friends said they were going to be writers. And I thought, How come you get to be a writer, and I don't? I thought WRITER was written on their foreheads and they saw it when they looked in the mirror, and I sure didn't see it when I looked in the mirror. I always thought of writing as holy. I still do.

she just seemed to have been put together more on purpose than other people.

But I know that if I don't at least try, I'll stay the way I am till it kills me. Till I kill me, I mean. I never really accept that that's what I'm doing - I say it, but I don't believe it.