Quotes About Self-awareness

One of the main reasons we fail to stick to new good habits and ditch negative ones is that we focus on changing what we're doing (or not doing) without also making sure that we embrace this habit as a new and valuable part of our identity.

At the end of the day, it's not about them, it's about you believing you're worthy of being loved and seen for who you really are.

Laugh at yourself, high and mighty king, laugh at yourself or despair!

Just that ever since I was very little I'd had this--affliction, or gift, or whatever you want to call it; that I have visions. And that this is something I accept about myself as part of who I am, a scary part sometimes , but also the best part of me because it makes me who I am, you know? It helps me understand things.

People laugh at me. Sometimes I know why, and sometimes I don't. But I can pretty much find humor in anything. That is a necessary part of life. I don't want to say laughter is healing, because it sounds corny, but it's a release.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and I think, Aren't we kind of the same age? You lose perspective. Or being offered the part of a woman with a 17-year-old child. It's like, "I'm not old enough to have a 17-year-old!" And then you realize, well, yeah, you are.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

It was like we had broken out of a lifetime of prison after realizing the door had been unlocked the entire time!

One thing I know for certain is that the longer I live and the more I learn, the more I realize that I know very little.

The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not.

Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you're a teenager—and even when you're older—lots of people will try to tell you what to think and feel. Try to stand still inside all of that and hear your own voice. It's yours and only yours, it's unique and worth of your attention, and if you cultivate it properly, it might just make you a writer.

We never know who we are... until we're tested

Mirrors only show us what we are. Books show us what we can be.

Ghosts are not the dead, come back from the grave to torment the living; ghosts are already here. They live inside us, keening in the ashes of our sorrows, mired in the thick, clutching mud of our regrets.

But here, surrounded by friends who wanted her, she recognized for the first time that there was only one voice that truly mattered. Only one she had to listen to. Her own.

We must not run from our unhappiness. We must listen to it. It has much to tell us.

Me?' I laughed. 'I'm guilty.

I saw myself exactly as he saw me. And that made me angry.

I know what you're thinking.Girlfriend has fallen out of the stoopid tree and bonked her head against every branch on the way down.

Mr. Rush said to Drew, "I think I see what the matter is. You were the youngest child. The irresponsible black sheep of the Morrow Mafia. Now, without warning, you're Jan Brady." "Who?" Drew asked. "The middle child from The Brady Bunch," I said. "The pretty one?" Drew asked. "No," Mr. Rush and I said together.

They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.

What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.

underneath that I'd said something else: we were both a couple of asswipes, and now only I'm an asswipe; why? And underneath that, something else: once an asswipe, always an asswipe.