Quotes About Self-awareness

I don't want to start the rest of my life having regrets.

You never know what you'll find out about yourself when you stretch outside your comfort zone.

As she as she

The best I offer the world is the truth—my highest gift. What the world does with it is not up to me. I am not in charge of outcomes, opinions, assessments. I am not in the business of damage control. When I present a fabricated version of myself—the self who knows all, is ever certain, always steps strong—we all lose, because I cannot keep up with that lie and neither can you.

We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

When we operate from the central concern of being seen a certain way, we can't develop healthy relationships in the messy soil of reality-- the only place they'll grow. Presenting a perfect, fake life to others generates fear in our own hearts and intimidation in everyone else's, and creates nice, fake relationships-- with our friends, with our family members, even with our own children.

We judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we're doing. If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good about my body, I don't go around making fun of other people's weight or appearance. We're hard on each other because we're using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived shaming deficiency.

Something weird happens to your brain. This brain has served you well for so long, but it starts punking you. You can't remember directions, you forget why you walked into a room, and for the life of you, you can't recall your third kid's name (

The best I offer the world is the truth—my highest gift. What the world does with it is not up to me. I am not in charge of outcomes, opinions, assessments. I am not in the business of damage control. When I present a fabricated version of myself—the self who knows all, is ever certain, always steps strong—we all lose, because I cannot keep up with that lie and neither can you. Here is the truth: Sometimes life is complicated.

I am not as good as my ego suggests and not as bad as my conscience admonishes.

If you learn to be true in childhood, you will bypass the devastating 'undoing' so many endure later. You won't have to reinvent, reimagine, or rediscover who you are in your twenties, when you are making the most important decisions of your life (a terrible time for an identity crisis).

Popularity is a terrible goal, because you have to lose yourself to find it.

Cloud and Townsend suggest two questions to regularly ask the closest people in your life: What do I do that draws you toward me? What do I do that pushes you away?

It's not how good we are that counts, but how truthful we are about how good we're not.

Thank you, Daylight and Rearview Mirror, for bringing to light the long, wiry chin hairs I missed during my morning tweeze session. You also exposed my eyebrows as an absolute tragedy. I have enough undetected facial hair to qualify me as a Sasquatch,

Some people are destined to be deep thinkers. I am not one of those people.

The people you surround yourself with are excellent mirrors for who you are and how much, or how little, you love yourself.

When you don't investigate what's going on with your words, thoughts, and beliefs, you risk stumbling through life on autopilot.

You are a victim of the rules you live by.     ââ'¬â€Jenny Holzer;

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.     ââ'¬â€Kurt Cobain; you know who this one is, right? When

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.     ââ'¬â€Kurt Cobain;

Chances are excellent that deep down you're scared to stop overspending because you're trying to fill an emotional hole with stuff and experiences.

When you feel frustrated or upset by a person or a situation, remember that your reactions are not the truth about the person or situation, they are just your feelings about them. All you have to do is change your perception and you are free.

constantly ask yourself "can I let this one go?" By becoming aware of what we do, we can investigate why we do it and then choose to keep it or drop it, instead of blindly reacting through habit.