Quotes About Self-awareness

Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart's desire

I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

It makes life so much easier when you can just say 'I'm human' at the end of the day."

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

But I am not those people. I am just the biologist; I don't require any of this to have a deeper meaning.

Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye but not notice the log in your own eye?

There's three ways not to see what you don't want to,' she told me. 'One is the coward's way and too damned painful. The other is to close your eyes forever which is the same as the first, when it comes to it. The third is the hardest and the best: You have to make sure only the things you can afford to see come before you.' *

Now he wondered why he'd bothered. He disliked having such thoughts because he wasn't above it all—he was in it—but they were hard to suppress.

I suppose it goes without saying that negative speaking so often flows from negative thinking about ourselves. We see our own faults, we speak-or at least think- critically of ourselves, and before long that is how we see everyone and everyting. No sunshine, no roses, no promise of hopee or happiness. Before long we and everybody around us are miserable.

I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking

How do you know it's love and not obsession?

Try to respect the reasons your lifetrap developed in the first place. In your childhood, it was essential for your emotional survival. But what was once a help to you is now hurting you, and it is time to give it up. It is time for you to begin the slow journey out of self-denial and self-defeat, and to reclaim your life for yourself.

Once you can open yourself up to the idea that your defectiveness is not a fact, the healing process can begin to work.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

My experience has shown me that if you have to say what you are, you probably aren't. Think about that for a moment. "I'm honest," "I'm ethical," even "I'm the boss," or "I'm in charge," usually indicates just the opposite. Doesn't it?

The experience of learning how to Relabel, Reframe, Refocus, and Revalue was eye-opening for them because it allowed them to see that their time could be better spent on other pursuits and in healthier ways.

I suppose it goes without saying that negative speaking so often flows from negative thinking about ourselves. We see our own faults, we speak--or at least think--critically of ourselves, and before long that is how we see everyone and everything. No sunshine, no roses, no promise of hope or happiness. Before long we and everybody around us are miserable.