Quotes About Self-awareness

We know when our actions fail to match our inner thoughts and feelings, but we often forget that this knowledge is not available to others.

Guess what often brings about anxiety. The voices in your own head, also known as the inner critic or the critical inner voice.

And feel that I am happier than I know.

He knewHimself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.

Deep vers'd in books and shallow in himself.

So absolute she seemsAnd in herself complete, so well to knowHer own, that what she wills to do or say,Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.

It is not just our failures or limitations that hold us back, it is our failure to recognise them.

Our relationship with ourselves significantly affects how we interact with other people. Our self-esteem frequently depends on how we feel we are "doing" at relationships. Given that this fluctuates, so does our self-esteem. Intellectually, we may tell ourselves that it shouldn't, but when have emotions ever obeyed the intellect?

Much of what torments us is often just flickering images, in particular the unfavourable assessments about life (and ourselves) that we make. As we watch that self-critical movie in our minds, we reproach ourselves over and over. Self-acceptance is about quitting this shabby movie theater and stepping outside into the sun.

themselves. I have wondered sometimes if a man, to be a man, must not master a woman and if a woman to be a woman must not know herself mastered.

the sense of separateness from the rest of the world, as if everyone else knew the part they were playing but I'd never been given a script.

We're not afraid of who we are. We're afraid of who we think we're not.

He was speaking more rapidly and confidently and suddenly Charles understood that he was cutting the cloth to fit his faults, as everyone did at some time or other.

We are called as individuals and congregations to learn the disciplines and skills that help us define ourselves, engage each other in nonanxious interaction, and maintain emotional contact even when we disagree.

Be careful about what you hate. You may find that like a blindfold it removes your ability to see. Look first for what you see of yourself in others. Love the sinners, and see yourself in them. There you will find God.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.

Authenticity begins when you start by admitting that you are inauthentic.

If we come with a chip on our shoulder that there is nothing we can learn or no benefit we can get, we will prove ourselves infallible on both counts.

Mental health is, in great measure, the gift of self-forgetfulness. The reason is that introspection destroys what matters most to us- the authentic experience of great things outside ourselves.

He who has learned how to laugh at himself shall never cease to be entertained.

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

I want to tell you something before we leave. Im not at all the way you think I am. Im not like you want me to be, the way I tried to look and act for you: not unconcerned, nor easygoing—not tough: no, not at all.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.