Quotes About Self-awareness

Meditating has taught me to sit with my thoughts, my feelings, and just observe them.

Being still may sound a little crazy to some, but I really encourage people to simply listen to your own breath and unclog all those thoughts running through your mind. It's important to take a step back.

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

Write down your fears. Write down your thoughts. Write down the feelings you want to have. Just release it, don't ignore it. It's a lot easier said than done, but once you start practicing some of those things, you'll realize that you have a lot more control over your thoughts, your feelings.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

I still have a lot of those depressive thoughts, but now I have the foresight to tell myself, 'Don't think like that,' and things seem better.

It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

Yo, sedienta de mí, me detenía en estatuas duplicando el instante fugitivo en cristales y luego reiniciaba mi marcha de Narciso ya entonces como alada liberación de imagen entre imágenes.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

It is beyond my comprehension. Love has entered me like a disease, so stealthily I have not seen its approach nor heard its footsteps. My mind recognises the folly of it and yet I still boil and burn with it, precisely as with a fever. To whom shall I turn to be cured? From his damp abitation, I hear Pearce make a Pearcean reply: he does not pause or hesitate before instructing, 'To yourself, Merivel'.

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

To set us on a clear path, it is important to communicate well, at least with ourselves. To know what we want, to know what we mean, and to learn to express ourselves clearly, with as little confusion as possible. If you are confused about yourself, you can expect to be misunderstood by those around you. You have to set your mind straight, and that is a task that no one else can undertake for you.

Tarot is a way of sorting out what's bothering you and getting advice from the best-informed source - you - in a way that you're likely to listen to.

More than once in the orphanage, I'd been asked if I wanted to look different. Truth is, I never did. I knew who I was when I looked into the mirror, my mother's daughter.

You can't hide from your egg, Max.

I am difficult to love, and I know it. I never learned the unconditional part, so trust evades me. Add sex and I fall apart, eventually retreating back into the swamp. Very few people can put up with me, and I can't blame them. I am a constant contradiction. I annoy myself.