Quotes About Self-awareness

Have you noticed that it is usually easier to judge than obey? Religious people are especially good at it. I tried

Why was it that, sometimes, you needed to see people closest to you as others saw them to remember how fantastic they were? Why couldn't you always remember that?

Porque será que, de vez em quando, precisamos de ver as pessoas que nos são mais próximas através dos olhos dos outros para nos lembrarmos de como são fantásticas? Porque não temos isso sempre presente?

Address only those problems that are true problems to you, and don't create or imagine problems because someone else thinks you have them, no matter if that person is family, friend, or expert.

Most people have opinions about how others should behave ... I just have high standards for who I intend to be no matter how they're behaving!

The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.

Darling, the world doesn't owe you anything.

All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along and fix things.

How could someone like me survive a plane crash? I didn't look like someone who could do that. I wasn't someone who could do that Maybe I hadn't Maybe I was dead. Maybe I was l was lying on the ground somewhere, rain falling over me, into my open eyes. I looked at myself in the mirror and didn't see anything. I didn't see me.

Don't be scared of your hunger. If you're scared of your hunger, you'll just be one more ninny like everyone else.

It's just that I'm the kind of person," Rebecca continued, "that thinks if you took a map of the whole world and put a pin in it for every person, there wouldn't be a pin for me.

A friend had said to me once, "Whenever I don't know what to do, I watch what I am doing." And what I was doing that year was leaving, even though I had not yet left.

I am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am.

I took myself—secretly, secretly—very seriously! I knew I was a writer. I didn't know how hard it would be. But no one knows that; and that does not matter.)

Please try to understand this: I have always thought that if there was a big corkboard and on that board was a pin for every person who ever lived, there would be no pin for me.

Everyone thinks like themselves, this is my point.

Everyone, she understood, was mainly and mostly interested in themselves.

There was something about her that seemed deeply—almost fundamentally—comfortable inside herself, the way I think a person is when they have been loved by their parents.

What she could not possibly have known was that even as I stood before all those people and read and answered questions, I still felt oddly—but very truly—invisible.

we kind of know who we are, without knowing it.

It had made me draw back just slightly inside myself. And I knew this was because I had always been afraid of giving off that odor myself.

How is it that some people know how to do this, and others, like me, still give off the faint smell of what we came from? I would like to know. I will never know. Catherine, with her own scent that she always wore.

If you can't figure out something... don't watch what you think, watch what you do.

A friend had said to me once, 'Whenever I don't know what to do, I watch what I am doing.