Quotes About Self-awareness

We had a meeting where we were supposed to learn how to respond to jerks who ask things like When did you know you were adopted? Most people picture a scene where the parents sit you down and you find out who you are. I didn't need that meeting to know how to answer, because all I had to do was look in the mirror. When people ask me that question, I always say, When did you find out you weren't adopted? How do you know your mother is your birth mother?

I accepted these limitations, knowing that my worth was based entirely on the child growing inside me.

When we narrate our experience, we take control of it. And in controlling the story of our past, we can create a better future.

an awareness of your own worth is the most attractive quality in the world.

You were never so acutely aware of your own flaws as you were in the presence of your child. Why was that?

Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster." —Friedrich Nietzsche

when we put on clothes, we're telling ourselves something, and we're communicating that something to every person we meet.

But mainly, people were so wrapped up in their own inner hurricane that they never saw anything outside the storm of themselves.

There is no external refuge." Meaning, you cannot look into the outer world to feel safe, to feel at peace. You cannot look without for understanding, or for justice. You must look within. I

I'm not old, but I've misused my body and let others misuse it, and I think it shows.

Everyone has flaws, even if you can't see them.

A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.

Watching TV puts your own hell into a different perspective, if that's what you want. Today I do.

I try to imagine keeping something like that a secret for my whole life. It would be like always wearing a mask over your face, which everyone believed was the real you. You would be the only person who knew it wasn't--and who knew that you could never take it off.

Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.

Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror.

They were arranged by their original numbers, the numbers they had been given at birth. The numbers were rarely used after the Naming. But each child knew his number, of course. Sometimes parents used them in irritation at a child's misbehavior, indicating that mischief made one unworthy of a name. Jonas always chuckled when he heard a parent, exasperated, call sharply to a whining toddler, ''That's enough, Twenty-three!

It's not that I'm not upset; it's just that I'm too tired to run up and down the corridor screaming.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself... Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe. 'Know thyself.' We try, sir.

But though you'd never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your heart, yet act as though you can still draw on it forever without the debt ever coming due. If you fall—when you fall, you're going to fall like a starving man.

It indicates a deep confusion of thinking to mistake one's own discomfort for a benefit to another.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.... The friction tends to arise when the two are not the same....There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.