Quotes About Self-awareness

I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.

To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.

The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

You have a Happiness Switch in you that you can switch on at any time. All you have to do is stop switching it off in order to blackmail yourself or others.

Happy Tuesday! We are responsible for peace and order in our lives! When your world is CONSTANTLY filled with chaos, then it's time to take a look at SELF!

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight.

Some people are medicating themselves all the time so that they don't have to embrace themselves. If you can't feel, you can't embrace.

We need empathy to give empathy. When we sense ourselves being defensive or unable to empathize, we need to (a) stop, breathe, give ourselves empathy, (b) scream nonviolently, or (c) take time out.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.

Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.

Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.