Quotes About Self-awareness

Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Unfelt feelings don't cease to exist; they stay bottled up in our minds and our bodies. They dissipate when given expression. A heart can break only if it is closed—if it remains open there is nothing to break.

One man came up to me at a taco stand and said, "I have no idea who you are, but I can see everyone is staring at you, so you must be somebody. I just wanted to tell you that you are not that special. You're no more special than me." I looked at him with a mouth full of food and managed to say, "Thanks. I agree," and promptly asked the waitress for a to go box.

I learned years later that my gratitude practice actually helped me form new neural pathways. The hippie rituals of positive affirmations are not just baloney. Gratitude doesn't exist only in your mind—you have to feel it in your whole being. Feelings are the shadows of thoughts. When we have negative thoughts, our emotions mirror them with anxiety. You can often see what you are thinking by reverse engineering and studying your feelings.

Engage in a loving archaeological dig back to yourself. Let all that is not yours within you fall away until only your real nature remains.

Happiness does not rely on what you have or who you are. It relies on what you think.

The truth is that no one can keep you captive. No one can keep you unhappy. No one can keep you abused. Our lives rise to the level we accept.

Feelings are the shadows of thoughts. When we have negative thoughts, our emotions mirror them with anxiety. You can often see what you are thinking by reverse engineering and studying your feelings.

As he thinks in his heart, so he is.

First mend yourself, and then mend others.

Fortunately, how we choose to be today is not predetermined by how we were yesterday...You and you alone choose moment by moment who and how you want to be in the world. I encourage you to pay attention to what is going on in your brain. Own your power and show up for your life.

I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.

My ex-wife did once accuse me of treating my own needs as if they were instructions and everyone else's needs as impediments.

I'm grateful to her. This habit women have - a role Helen often claimed not to want - of telling me what I'm feeling. Tremendously helpful. Like having an interpreter at hand to translate you to yourself.

People love to believe they're so much better than they are. People who have never been tested, they're so quick to judge. What do they really know about themselves? All I'm saying is this: unless you've been there, found yourself with nothing, nothing but your own talent, you can't tell me you wouldn't do it the same way, too.

Many Aquarian men experience the sensation of watching life as if they are outside of their body. Yes, some of them are crazy, but most of them are just so profoundly detached that they are able to separate not just from the rest of the world, but from themselves, too.

A feminist was a woman unable to accept that she wasn't a man.

A dream tells you where you are, not what to do; or, by placing you where you are, it tells you what you are doing.

allowed themselves to reinhabit themselves

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Do you really think I'm bad?" "Of course, Jane. Every woman is, if given the chance.

Sometimes you have to say, 'Today's just not my day.

A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.