Quotes About Self-awareness

You idealize me. You don't even know me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't like me very much.

I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.

Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally.

It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.

Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.

Kierkegaard's advice. He suggested that we become subjective toward others and objective toward ourselves. That is, when we judge the actions of others, we should put ourselves in their place, trying to understand how they see themselves and their world. And when we judge ourselves, we should see ourselves as others see us, overcoming the ease with which we find extenuating circumstances for ourselves.

everyone wants insight into others, few people are as willing to look so intently at themselves.

Pablo Mora has one of those hangovers where you see yourself in the mirror and think you look familiar.

mirrors reveal so little

There comes a time in a man's life, he figured, the infamous midlife crisis, when a guy has to face the reality that what he has is all he's going to get, and he needs to find his peace and his happiness in his life as it is.

Your strengths are your weaknesses. The more you try to protect something, the more vulnerable you make it.

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you, do you consider yourself sane? --I do. --Well, there you have it. --But don't they also consider themselves sane? --I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane. --How must that make them feel? --Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.

I am cuckolding myself

I'm not responsible for what other people think, only for what I am.

People who judge others tell more about Who They Are, than Who They Judge.

When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide, mishandle, mislead… or any other "mis"… to others, they're obviously missing something from their lives.

Happiness is not something that you get in life, hapiness is something that you bring in life

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.