Quotes About Self-awareness

But you can't make someone be something they're not.

It's like when someone says, 'How are you?' do you say, 'Well, mt head hurts and I'm lonely and depressed and I'm worried about everything and the world is collapsing and full of evil? Or do you say, I'm fine?

I get to thinking, and when I get to thinking it's not always good

The first step of any therapy is a little self-awareness. I want you to think about the ways your habits, your belief systems, your personality quirks have been developed to help you and protect you. Then ask yourself if they are truly working or if they're hurting you. For instance, when you feel a headache coming on, focus on something in front of you. Something real, like your hand, to keep you in the moment. It sounds small, but it helps, I promise.

No wonder Emma didn't see me. No wonder I wasn't in the mirror. I wasn't really there. I was dead. ... Emma stared at the girl's huge, blue eyes, slightly upturned nose, and round face. She looked exactly like her. That was because the girl in the video was me.

Maybe the only thing that really matters is how you see yourself.

Somos lo que pretendemos ser así que debemos tener cuidado con lo que pretendemos ser (Kurt Vonnegut)

I was middle class and fucked up and spoilt.

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

You don't know what the hell you look like when you're just some little schoolgirl.

You have no future when the past rules you.

Thena . . . I fell in love with you as you are. Fractured, maybe. Lost, perhaps. But I'm no prize either.

It's not arrogant to know who you are. It's powerful. And I am powerful.

You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.

If I offend anybody tonight, I apologize. That's not my intention. I'm not going to guess what your personal line of decency is; I cross my own from time to time - it's how I know I still have one.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

I'm always one time zone behind myself.