Quotes About Self-awareness

She knew little about herself and consequently little about others.

We cannot change the sort of person that we are.

Sarcasm doesn't grow on the same stalk as humility.

He knew what it was like to have lost belief in one's own excellence. One could not move through life without a measure of outward assurance any more than one could go about without a suit of clothes, but it needed a lot of practice before one could hold the thing steady outwardly while remaining inwardly aware that there was nothing to be assured about.

I can only grow to what I will be from what I am, and where I am, so discontent is quite useless. Much more sensible to accept the one and love the other.

Some men define themselves by women although they appear to believe it is quite the opposite; to believe that it is she, rather than themselves, who is being filed away, tagged, named at last like a quivering cell under a microscope.

And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.

We look so very different from the way we sound. It's a shock, similar to hearing your own voice for the first time, when you're forced to wonder how the rest of you comes across if you sound nothing like the way you think you sound. You feel dislodged from the old shoe of yourself.

Those who think themselves entitled to everything, often find themselves entitled to nothing.

Some girls have a real sexy giggle, but whenever I laugh it always comes out somewhere between a bellow and a snort!

When people marry awful people, just be grateful that you aren't them – either of them.

Alone, without the looking-glass of another person's presence, the mirrors of the imagination sometimes effect cunning distortions. By

Sometimes I think we only imagine ourselves. It's hard sometimes, coming face-to-face with your truer nature -- the part that you conceal, even from yourself.

I am, I thought, capable of holding a hundred different points of view on any one idea at any one time. There is no real me.

He who angers you conquers you.

Being true to that self involves sifting through the layers of bad advice and unreasonable expectations of others. It requires seeing through your own delusions of grandeur or your fear of failure or your impostor syndrome or your conviction that there is something uniquely and obviously screwed up about your particular self.

So," I asked again, "if mistakes provide the best opportunity for discovery and evolution, why do we go around trying to look so sure of ourselves all the time?" I invited the crowd of left-brain thinkers to put

it is the internal transformation that matters most. If there is one thing that has made a difference in my life, it is the courage to turn and face what wants to change within me.

I accept now that the point of life is not to reach perfection but to befriend the fact that human beings are works in progress.

It's easy to remain blind about ourselves when we stay within the safety zone—among people who are just like us, in a place that looks like home. We can trick ourselves into thinking that we are far more open-minded and bighearted than we really are. It's when we must walk our talk in the complex landscape of a messy life that self-righteous ideals are whittled down into the honest truth.

When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul. —RAM DASS

t's okay to let yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. -

I've never thought of you like that,' said Christopher. 'How could I? If you were any other woman, I could tell you I loved you, easily enough, but not you-- because you've always seemed to me like a part of myself, and it would be like saying I loved my own eyes or my own mind. But have you ever thought of what it would be to have to live without your mind or your eyes, Kate? To be mad? Or blind?

Sometimes my capacity for smallness is surprising, even to myself.