Quotes About Self-awareness

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

Might never know, because she was one of those people who would always be defined by the way others perceived her.

Si nos contemporains ne sont pas encouragés à assumer leur appartenances multiples, s'ils ne peuvent concilier leur besoin d'identité avec une ouverture franche et décomplexée aux cultures différentes, s'ils se sentent contraints de choisir entre la négation de soi-même et la négation de l'autre, nous serons entrain de former des légions de fous sanguinaires, des légions d'égarés.

Yöneticilerin en kötüsü seni sopalayan deÄŸil, seni kendi kendini sopalamaya zorlayand?r.

Highest miracle is to discover who you are – the ultimate possibility.

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

I'm not "depressed," she said. Besides, I hate that word. OK, what should we call it? She fluffed the pillow behind her back, indignant. I'm very faithful to my problems.

I could never give it a name, my condition. I would have said, "I'm depressed," if that had felt sufficient. But I felt more than depressed. I felt that I was depression. A swallowed woman.

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

When we take our social role too seriously the first thing we lose is our sense of humor.

Physicist Richard Feynman once said that analysis is how we try not to fool ourselves.129

The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to believe that others behave badly because of their personality while we ourselves behave badly because of factors beyond our control. People often jump to blaming others while letting themselves off the hook. Drivers think that someone cutting them off must be a jerk rather than wondering if there's an emergency or some other reason requiring them to drive that way.

When you're judging, you're not listening. And if you're not listening, you're missing out on one of the best ways to stimulate your smart vagus pathway and turn down the volume of your stress-response system. But if you're not judging, you can listen more and feel calmer, and this, in turn, will make interacting with others much easier and judging others less necessary.

Whitman said, 'I am as bad as the worst but, thank God, I am as good as the best.' You ought to spend more time with people who know how bad they are.

I don't want to end my life, he said, but I'd rather end it while I am still myself, rather than become less and less of a person.

my mother must have said to me a hundred times that men needed to be handled right and a woman who couldn't handle her man had only herself to blame.

When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. … We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

inner disciplines affect how we see others); looking outward with our eyes (how we see others affects how we treat others); and finally, by using what we've learned practically, with our hands.