Quotes About Self-awareness

Siempre fuiste de esos que creen saber cuándo llegará el momento de dejar de beber, dejar a una mujer o dejar la vida...

Every time you feel great anger, stop and write down who or what caused your feelings and why you reacted so angrily. The goal is to get to the root of the anger. Only when you understand the source can you find a solution.

Respect and humility go together. Humility is not meekness, but the opposite of arrogance. A wise old Indian man once said, "Empty drums make the loudest noise." Grandfather often repeated this phrase to indicate that those with the least understanding are the most arrogant.

Los tiempos en que conseguías controlarme pertenecen ya al pasado. Ahora que comprendo que eres la causa de todos mis problemas, te eliminaré en cuanto aparezcas.

I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent

But perhaps peace was not in a place but within one's self.

I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.

Why would you need a DNA test? I already know you're a fucking space cadet.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before they have even spoken to them. What's even worse is that these same people decide who someone else is, and don't even know who they are themselves.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

As long as we speak only in response to other people's disapproving silence, and as long as our words are but an apology, we ourselves are unable to judge the world fairly. Our life is an enigma to others, but their lives are an enigma to us, and our attempts to communicate with them are futile: we see them always as an audience, and in their eyes we are actors. No mind or character can withstand such false relations. They affect not only our behaviour but also our most intimate feelings.

You are your own judge. The verdict is up to you.

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them

A psychiatrist is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.

Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.

Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.