Quotes About Self-awareness

Jeste?my uwi?zieni w stereotypach. Wci?? si? ogl?damy za siebie, czy aby idziemy kup?. W ko?cu ?atwiej pyta?, czy ze mnie Europejczyk, czy Polak, a trudniej, czy aby nie je?op albo i ?winia.

Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the past was in your hands, but the good news is that the future, my friend, is also in your hands.

We can choose to be offended. We can choose not to be offended. It really is that simple. Not necessarily easy. Simple. And always a choice that is completely within our control.

Ask yourself this question every day: 'What is it about me that other people would change if they could?

I feel kind of normal," I say. "Normal but a little crazy.

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.

Geographically speaking, you can't get to where you want to be unless you know where you are the begin with. You need a reference point. Similarly, you can't get to where you want to be in life until you are willing to admit where you are to begin with. Self-deception makes that next to impossible.

We have a tendency to measure ourselves against the people around us. They become our point of reference. A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. …if we are wise enough to listen, they will help us go further, faster.

personal shortcomings is often rooted in some sort of insecurity. This can be easy to see in others but next to impossible to see in ourselves. It takes a certain amount of personal security to admit weakness.

You're worse than you thought, but God loves you more than you imagined.

I don't know about you, but there have been plenty of times when I have driven home from a hospital visit wondering why they let me be the pastor.

If there's an area in your life where you tell yourself, "I know this is wrong, but I'm going to do it anyway, and probably repeat it," Solomon would answer, "In that area of your life, you're a fool." And

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

A los veinte años yo calculaba, medía, pesaba y planificaba. Casi cuarenta después, era capaz de apretarme la nariz y tirarme a la pileta sin haber averiguado antes si había agua o no. Pero con los ojos abiertos. Me gustaba más a mí misma ahora que a los veinte años. Una de dos, o la experiencia me había dado lo que la sabiduría popular atribuye a la juventud, o la sabiduría popular es una mierda. Me incliné por la segunda posibilidad.

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they're only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn't it? Everything else is artful.

I speak as if he had no secrets from me. Well, then, you must know I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

The piety, the gentleness, the honesty, the sensitivity, all the qualities she has learned to admire in herself, are invitations to violence; all her life, she has been groomed for the slaughterhouse. And though she is virtuous, she does not know how to do good.

He knew it was too late to turn back and brusquely reminded himself he was no child, now, to be frightened of his own fancies.

Freika said, and twisted his head around between his hind legs. Jane eyed him as he went to work. "You know, if you're smart enough for sarcasm, you're smart enough to know it's rude to lick your own genitals." The wolf looked up. "You're just jealous." She opened her mouth to deny it, then stopped. "Well, yeah.

I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.