Quotes About Self-awareness

I lay down to sleep with the resolve that I would not let Galen deceive me any longer, nor persuade me to deceive myself.

She was a dragon, not a mindless mud salamander.

To take what has happened to you and learn from it, instead of being trapped by it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

Much insight into himself could have been gained from contemplation of these things, but Wintrow reined his mind away from it. Perhaps he did not want to know himself quite that well." p. 543

Is there nothing private anymore?" "Only the things we keep from ourselves," she replied sadly. She

Be content with your own life, my friend, and live it well. Let others decide for themselves what path they will follow.

When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead." I have discovered that to

Be content with your own life, my friend, and live it well. Let others decide for themselves what path they will follow." She frowned up at him. "Even when you see, with absolute clarity, that it is wrong for them? That they hurt themselves?" "Perhaps people have a right to their pain," he hazarded. Reluctantly he added, "Perhaps they even need it.

Yours is a true heart, Vespertilio. Beware of it, for it is surely too large for thy chest to contain.

Katie wondered for a moment if part of the reason so many of the young women she knew who had poor self-esteem ended up that way because they had spent their lives gazing at themselves in a mirror instead of being the mirror others gazed into.

Do not force me to look any longer at what I have become. Tell me instead what is to come.

Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself.

I Chose to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator.

One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.

There are things you don't want to know you can do

it is this very practice of acceptance that allows another to change if he chooses to do so.

I always thought I just wanted to be loved and the reality is I chose only people who weren't capable of loving me.

Cuando sucede algo emocionalmente doloroso y nos decimos que la culpa es nuestra, en realidad estamos diciendo que tenemos control sobre ello: si nosotros cambiamos, el dolor desaparecerá.

Collin Boyd stepped off the Metro bus on his way to work, and across the street he saw himself strolling down the sidewalk. A stubborn

The wisdom teachings that permeate this book revolve around the truth that radically honest, compassionate self-exploration leads to self-awareness, and that true self-awareness is always healing. It opens us to the naturalness of love, peace, joy, and our own boundless creativity. Love, and especially self-love and acceptance, is the greatest healing force that I have gleaned thus far.

The old teachings recognized that Windigo nature is in each of us, so the monster was created in stories, that we might learn why we should recoil from the greedy part of ourselves. This is why Anishnaabe elders like Stewart King remind us to always acknowledge the two faces—the light and the dark side of life—in order to understand ourselves. See the dark, recognize its power, but do not feed it.

I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' expectations and evidence of their disappointments

Nobody likes me," he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. "Can't imagine why," Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough, which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that I didn't have any lungs.

Wow," she said. "Do you realise how wonderful you sound?" "Yes, I do," he said with a firm nod. "And I think I'm underappreciated.