Quotes About Self-awareness

Joshie had always told Post-Human Services staff to keep a diary, to remember who we were, because every moment our brains and synapses are being rebuilt and rewired with maddening disregard for our personalities, so that each year, each month, each day we transform into a different person, an utterly unfaithful iteration of our original selves, of the drooling kid in the sandbox.

Now he understood why he hated Luis Goodman and other writers so much. He was a damaged person, but not damaged enough to make a life out of it.

Rumination is the coin of my realm. Interiority breeds interiority.

the physical world is the only salvation from a mind constantly churning away at itself.

Once we begin to think clearly about neuroplasticity we are inevitably drawn to the question of what we want from life – what we consider to be a good life. Each of us must answer that for ourselves. But we are best able to do so when we understand the threats that some substances and behaviours pose to our capacity to choose the lives we want.

The man, still kneeling, must have understood the cause of my tears, for he said, 'It is true, Christine! ... I am not an Angel, nor a genius, nor a ghost ... I am Erik!

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

Some people is and some people are knee-high on a grasshopper. Which on ain't you ain't?

Letting yourself savor natural good feelings is a direct way to transcend your Upper Limit Problem. By extending your ability to feel positive feelings, you expand your tolerance for things going well in your life. In

If you focus for a moment, you can always find some place in you that feels good right now. Your task is to give the expanding positive feeling your full attention. When you do, you will find that it expands with your attention. Let yourself enjoy it as long as you possibly can. As

No one ever went to prison because of bad grammar, but the prisons are full of people who are there because of emotional illiteracy.

You cannot grow without growing inside.

Her secrets weren't kept just from other people but also from herself.

I find myself crying unabashedly, then I try to suck it in, realizing this is inappropriate.

I do not make mistakes, little monkey. A monkey I intended you to be. A monkey you are.

I am filthy. So is Doris, but we'll bathe and change clothes and be clean. Your filth is within you. If it were gone, you'd collapse.

You have understood me better than I wanted, as the man said when he looked in the mirror.

They were all thoroughly bad people of the type to which I myself belong—that is to say, bad people who are pleased to think themselves good.

It was in this instant of confusion that I realized for the first time that I am in some degree insane.

We say, I will, and I will not, and imagine ourselves (though we obey the orders of some prosaic person every day) our own masters, when the truth is that our masters are sleeping. One wakes within us and we are ridden like beasts, though the rider is but some hitherto unguessed part of ourselves.

And you, I think, are a good man of the kind who does not know himself to be one—some say that is the only kind.

anytime you truly listen to your hunger and fullness, you lose weight.

I tell them that if compulsive eating is anything, it's a way we leave ourselves when life gets hard. When we don't want to notice what is going on. Compulsive eating is a way we distance ourselves from the way things are when they are not how we want them to be.

I do believe that there are frozen places in ourselves - undigested pockets of pain - that need to be recognized and welcomed, so that we can contact that which has never been hurt or wounded or hungry.