Quotes About Self-awareness

People had to be who they were. The challenge was to love them for it. And to be honest when they'd hurt you. To apologize when you'd hurt them. It seemed pretty simple on the face of it. So why was it always so hard?

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

A woman who dared to live as an overt homosexual in such unwelcoming times might well have an ego of impressive strength and health that permitted her it know her own mind and to be true to her conception of herself.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

Too often in our lives, accomplishment and doing overshadow growth and becoming. We frantically scurry around, trying to paint the picture with our activities, but our being must be settled before our doing. George MacDonald said it well: "He thought to gain a thing by a doing, when the very thing desired was a being."8

I have brain damage, remember? I'm not responsible for my actions--or for the actions of my hand, which acted of its own volition and without my knowledge.' Cam to Bailey

den a lot of times myself," she confessed.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

Giving him a wry look, Shiloh said, "I think you're forcing me to look at myself, what I want, who I am." "Good relationships always do that for both people, Darlin'. It's just a natural progression between them. It can bring out our self-awareness. It's not easy. But it's rewarding.

Knowing who you are is vastly more important than knowing where you are going or even what you can do. Because he is your Creator, God has quite a bit to say to you about who you are. And who you truly are carries within it the revelation of what you could be.

You were created for truth. So no matter how frightening it may be at the time, we must always be truthful with ourselves.

Rather than compete for what was never meant for you . . . you would have the energy to discover what is yours.

You are so much more than what you or others can see or touch. You are so much more than what you've known or done. You are so much more than what others think or even how your perceptions frame your self-image.

Often the greatest poverty comes when we fail to realize what we have, just as the greatest deception comes when we do not know who we are.

But then I grew up, experienced some life, and I understood that when you merely switch from being a prisoner to being a guard, no one is freed, not even yourself.

Later came the hard knowledge that no one can save you from yourself.

We are all a little bit broken, she tells me (the reason she doesn't sleep at night?), but we all work on fixing ourselves.

Quincy, boyfriends apologize, shrinks analyze. Which are you?

Chances are that he's experiencing a great deal of guilt and self-loathing. Someone needs to help him come to terms with that. Otherwise, there is the danger that he will simply shut down that part of himself. He will start actively considering himself to be a remorseless killer. And he will become one.

Feel your feels, as the saying goes. Except so many feelings are hard to take.

If you won't take your body seriously, how is anyone else supposed to?

We are both women who understand there's no point to the coulda, woulda, shouldas of life.

Oh no. I don't do children. They're small, needy, easily destroyed. Let's be honest. I've come a long way from my family history