Quotes About Self-awareness

Geographical cures rarely work. You can extricate yourself from a place, but you cannot escape your own thoughts. Move somewhere to get away from an uncomfortable situation, and you will likely recreate the drama with a few set of actors playing the same roles. Heal your mind, and you are free anywhere.

No fue el acto lo que te hirió, sino cómo lo interpretaste. Del mismo modo que elegiste una interpretación que te hizo sufrir, también puedes elegir una que te cure. «Puedo elegir cambiar todos los pensamientos que me causan dolor» (L, Lección 284). A

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us

I'm not a hero. I'm not Resistance. I'm a stormtrooper.

I talk to myself," he had once explained to his minder. "I have conversations with myself. I debate with myself." He remembered smiling. "Sometimes I even win the arguments.

if we are able to describe the situation, what we want, what is happening, and legitimize the emotional process even when we do not like it, typically our emotional arousal will start the return toward a lower state of emotional upset and eventually back to normal emotional arousal

Something happened when you looked in the mirror together. You asked it, as always, a question, and you asked each other something too; and the space, shadowy but glossy, the further room in which you found yourself, as if on a stage, vibrated with ironies and sentimental admissions.

Readers who wish to follow Whim rather than whim--readers who have learned enough about what he or she really thrives on to seek more of it--the first lesson must be in humility. . . . Don't waste time and mental energy in comparing yourself to others whether to your shame or gratification, since we are all wayfarers.

It's not your job to decide whether people should think you're important or not, hey? Huh? What others think of us is none of our business. Maybe you're more important than you give yourself credit for. This could be God's way of showing you something you should know but don't.

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

I thought as much. Miss Murray, though I am a beast, do not think that I am stupid. I know that I am hideous and hateful. I am not loved, nor ever hope to be. Nor am I fool enough to think that what I feel for you is love. But in this world, alone, I do not hate you. And alone in this world, you do not hate me.

I know every inch of this cell. This cell knows every inch of me. Except one.

Something in the humble voice must have touched Msimangu, for he said, I am not kind. I am a selfish and sinful man, but God put his hands on me, that is all.

I cannot stop you from thinking your thoughts. It is good that a young man has such deep thoughts. But hate no man, and desire power over no man.

The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.

Of course not. It's only funny when it happens to other people. I'd have thought that was obvious.

Remember, when you're reading your Bible, your Bible is also reading you." It is a two-way transaction.

We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return for self-awareness.

WE GENERALLY FEEL defined by our past. Our past, however, is a story that we tell ourselves in the present.

There are three things I noticed about being thirty-three: Failing memory, hair loss and failing memory.

If you concern yourself with telling or showing people how interesting you are, you will at best provoke a temporary response of polite interest until even that gives way to annoyance. If you let people find it out for themselves, you become a real source of fascination.

Our tendency to think that we're not predictable is probably one of our more predictable traits.

When we are customarily annoyed by what we see as the failings of others, we are judging them by a ludicrous standard: we are assuming that they fully understand our desires, quite possibly better than we do, and that they have nothing to do but arrange things to fall seamlessly into place around our probably ill-communicated wishes.