Quotes About Self-awareness

Replace risk with certainty. You have no worries about losing control if you aren't threatened. Once you are certain about yourself, external threats don't exist anymore, because threat is the same as fear, and knowing who you are is a fearless state. Who you are is the true self. Expanded awareness takes you closer to this true self; therefore, fear decreases. When that happens, the issue of control lessens. In its place you experience a state of increased freedom.

should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering—you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.

Nunca habrá otra perfección que la de ahora. Canto a mí mismo, WALT WHITMAN

In self-referral, you experience your true being, which is unfearful of any challenge, has respect for all people, and feels beneath no one. Self-power is therefore true power.

Humans are in the ironic position of knowing for certain that we have a mind, while at the same time finding that our mind can't explain itself.

How can you tell when your ego is getting in the way of your dreams? There are many clues, but the most important is anxiety. Whenever your self or your spirit is overshadowed by your self-image or your ego, you feel anxiety.

Brooding on your negative traits isn't going to bring the shadow to light.

A self check in is a way to know and manage awareness, attention and Intention.

I realize that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves. We build ourselves out of what we think we remember, what we believe to be true about our life; and the possessions we gather around us are supposedly a part of this, that we are, to some extent what we own.

Touching the scar, quickly, so that no one ever realised that she was doing it, restored a sense of reality, a sense of who she was, in a way that looking at her own reflection could not.

Looking at someone in a negative way is like looking through a mirror

Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.

He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.

To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.

If you think about something else hard enough, you can mostly control your feelings.

Writing taught me who I was, because your writing is your fingerprint

I touch my scar to remind myself that I am not a coward. I am a Quinn.

I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.

If you don't trust yourself, if you don't know your own value system, then you're lost, and you can be manipulated." — Salih Rasava?, Social Worker, Sarajevo

If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!