Quotes About Self-awareness

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

Try to imagine that you're the strongest, most noble, most thoughtful, most compassionate, intelligent person in the world, and pretend to be that. Speak from that place. It's more than self-awareness; it's the ability to access this super-intelligence.

If you're a thoughtful person, you won't want to be in people's faces all the time.

Being a sensitive, thoughtful person opens you up for criticism and being affected by it.

When I was kid, I couldn't wait to take the world by storm, to be a woman - beautiful, powerful, confident, sexy, thoughtful, and deep. All the things I knew I was inside... even though I was only 4.

I like acting impulsively, but I'm also extremely thoughtful about what I do. So, it's not like someone would say 'Don't do something,' and I'd automatically go, 'I'm gonna do it anyway.'

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

I make sure I cut down the negative thoughts and accept the reality there is. If it is going good, it is good.

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.

A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

It's everyone's responsibility to build up other women rather than tear them down. Be self-aware and proactive. It's not wrong to have those thoughts, but you can change how you respond to those feelings. Take a mental step back, and think about why you're feeling that way.

Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.

My thoughts have been the thing I can rely on.