Quotes About Self-awareness

The first step is to decide what you want. What attitude will help you get along with your difficult people? Do you want to be calm? Confident? Assertive? Relaxed? Caring? Patient? Determined? A combination of these? Give the resource a description name. If you name it, you can have it.

I free myself not by trying to be free, but by simply noticing how I am imprisoning myself in the very moment I am imprisoning myself

Criticism is one of the ultimate manifestations of pride because when we criticize someone else, we assume we are superior to them.

I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real.

Humility stops you from overestimating your own significance and it enables you to accept, understand, and live with failures and learn from them constructively.

Allowing your focus to drift to negativity or criticism will put you on the defensive. It will get you pointing fingers and take away from the job you are doing.

John Wooden said, "Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Some irony. The girl who couldn't face her own bullshit . . . suddenly forcing everyone else to.

Been complaining for so long maybe it's all I know how to do.

what deliberate steps are you taking to make sure the toxic smoke of the world's way of thinking isn't sifting into your own personal space to poison your mental, emotional, and spiritual "atmosphere"?

Self-consciousness kills communication.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Rick I guess you're not happy so which one are you

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.

Judge not lest ye be judged you fat motherfucker

Ng??i ta luôn h?i, "H?ng ngày tôi ph?i thá»±c t?p nh?ng gì?" Câu tr? l?i c?a tôi là, "Su?t ngày canh ch?ng gi?n d?, luy?n ái, và b?n ngã.

I was often overwhelmed as a boy by feelings of anxiety, and by profound embarrassment about the kind of family that I came from, my fears made worse by my inability to share them with anyone else or even to comprehend what they meant.

it encourages its readers to engage in similar acts of self-scrutiny.

The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.

How fine to be willing to admit that one does not know what one does not know, instead of spewing out such nonsense and disgusting oneself!' (Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods).