Quotes About Self-awareness

When you are alone, you find out who you are capable of being.

The goal is for your mid-life crisis to turn into a mid-life discovery.

I was born gifted. I can speak of my gifts with little or no modesty, but with tremendous gratitude, precisely because they are gifts, and not things which I created, or actions about which I might be proud.

i hate leaving places i love i was never at one place long. am i selfish?

You can't be with someone else effectively, unless you can stand to be alone with yourself," he declared. "Being part of a couple isn't the final answer. It can't define who you are.

She studied my face. I rubbed my eyes. "I'm fine," I assured her. That was five months ago. I wasn't fine then and I'm not fine now. (Thwonk)

The problem with human beings is we think we can wear too many hats at once. It's not possible. It's an outright fashion disaster.

Sonia] Sotomayor resisted comparisons with other justices, saying she considered them counterproductive. Speaking generally, she said that throughout her life she knew there would always be someone who would seem smarter, faster, and better. She said the comparisons she preferred were personal to her: 'Am I learning? Am I getting better?

Rather than thinking in terms of good and bad, it is more helpful to think in terms of conscious and unconscious, aware, and unaware.

Centering prayer is a form of meditation that is a conscious letting go of small mind and its continuous self-centered fantasies.

Retrospect the way that you expressed feelings yesterday. If you tend to use your feelings as a way to justify feeling bad, consider the possibility that you could use your feelings as guides to feeling better.

When you express feelings, are you stating what is or are you blaming someone? If expressing your feelings generally makes you or other people feel worse—doing harm—try thinking about feelings as teachers, rather than as judges about how the world is treating you.

Awareness of the little ways that we tend to be dishonest with ourselves leads to great strides in applying honesty and integrity to all our interactions.

We can only love others to the degree that we have opened our hearts to ourselves. It is not selfish to bless ourselves first, because if our heart remains closed we have nothing to give.

Carl Jung: "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

When you catch yourself thinking uncharitable thoughts, mentally resolve to stop and send out more kind, encouraging thoughts.

Prayer that is regular confounds both self-importance and the wiles of the world. It is so easy for good people to confuse their own work with the work of creation. It is so easy to come to believe that what we do is so much more important than what we are. It is so easy to simply get too busy to grow.

We don't change as we get older - we just get to be ore of what we've always been.

We don't change as we get older—we just get to be more of what we've always been.

We don't change as we get older - we just get to be more of what we've always been.

Silence is a frightening thing. Silences leaves us at the mercy of the noise within us. We hear the fears that need to be faced. We hear, then, the angers that need to be cooled. We hear the emptiness that needs to be filled. We hear the cries for humility and reconciliation and centeredness. We hear ambition and arrogance and attitudes of uncaring awash in the shallows of the soul. Silence demands answers. Silence invites us to depth. Silence heals what hoarding and running will not touch.

We gain the insight to see ourselves through the friendships we make. They mirror us to ourselves. In them we see clearly what we do not have as well as what the world cannot do without. They do not judge us or condemn us or reject us. They hold us up while we grow, laughing and playing as we go. They bring us to the best of ourselves. "One's friends," George Santayana wrote, "are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.