Quotes About Self-awareness

We can be proud of our abilities, but we must be honest about our shortcomings—our ignorance as well as our mistakes.

It is a painful thing To look at your own trouble and know That you yourself and no one else has made it • Sophocles, Ajax

Don't blame someone or something else, or make up an excuse. Don't blame all the problems on a vendor, a programming language, management, or your coworkers.

In measured doses, mortification cleanses the soul. It's the perfect antidote for excessive self-regard.

Whatever anybody else thinks of you is none of your business.

Humility is the proper estimate of oneself." CHARLES SPURGEON

each person must acknowledge the sins of which he himself is guilty.

Here, all this time, Less thought he was merely a bad writer. A bad lover, a bad friend, a bad son. Apparently the condition is worse; he is bad at being himself.

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

And finally: Who are we when we're not ourselves?

by now, he is well acquainted with humility. It is the one piece of luggage he has not lost.

By his forties, all he has managed to grow is a gentle sense of himself, akin to the transparent carapace of a soft-shelled crab.

We waste so much time within ourselves.

His brain sits before its cash register again, charging him for old shames as if he has not paid before.

My goal is to stay safely in between self-analysis and self-destruction.

If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you.

The only way to find out whether you're depressed is to listen to and watch yourself, to feel your feelings and then think about them. If you feel bad without reason most of the time, you're depressed. If you feel bad most of the time with reason, you're also depressed, though changing the reasons may be a better way forward than leaving circumstance alone and attacking the depression. If the depression is disabling to you, then it's major.

You can exorcise the demons of schizophrenics who perceive that there's something foreign inside them. But it's much harder with depressed people because we believe we are seeing the truth. But the truth lies.

It's not the accumulation of knowledge, but the realization of the self that marks the true power of the warrior.

So you should always have a product that's not just "you." An actress should count up her plays and movies and a model should count up her photographs and a writer should count up his words and an artist should count up his pictures so you always know exactly what you're worth, and you don't get stuck thinking your product is you and your fame, and your aura. 6 Work

And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.

Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said.

Everyday, there are choices to make and sometimes you make a selfish one.

For how very different a woman will look when she has happiness, Olympia knows, when her beauty emanates from a sense of well-being or from knowing herself to be greatly loved. Even a plain woman will attract the eye if she is happy, while the most elaborately coiffed and bejeweled woman in a room, if she cannot summon contentment, will seem to be merely decorative.