Quotes About Self-awareness

If we examine what is behind our desires, we can usually get what we want without compromising: love, caring, confidence, respectability, excitement. Compromising is necessary only if what we want is in short supply.

When we systematically attempt to narrow a choice, the perspective we most often neglect is our own experience.

when you start to feel like you are better than someone else, you should probably stick your head in a toilet because at that moment your thoughts are crap.

Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

You're not in love. You're a wonderful flirt, though. You can put that on your resume.

Neither of us had the easy confidence of someone like Harry Minor, who could gleefully complain of "not knowing a fucking thing," then set about knowing it.

sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

If you don't know who you are, how is anybody else supposed to get to know you?

Write it down, Gio. After dinner go to your room and write down what happened and how you feel about it. Your writing is good--it really is. Just don't run away from the feelings.

because a man is always a fool until he is made to realize the extent of his folly

I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.

I do not let myself entertain regrets nor think about mistakes. My father always said, and he was right, that regret is a useless practice. But I find that in my thirties, regrets chase me down the street sometimes. It's not so easy to shrug them away.

We yield our wills and our imaginations to "experts," both visible and invisible, and pretend that only the experts have god-given powers of perception. We forget the legitimacy of our own knowing.

laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can

the more removed you become from the person you're naturally supposed to be – the harder you're making your life and the less happy you become.

As you check your effects, check your reflection, I'm so affected in the face of your affection

Our goal as parents should not be to create a bunch of good kids, but rather to have them see how dead they are and that there is only life in the work of Jesus Christ.

The only way that we can change our feelings is by changing our core beliefs and the thoughts that occupy our minds.

It is amazing but true that it is easy for any of us to rebuke someone else who is intending to do something evil and say, "Don't do that—that's a sin!" And yet it is difficult for us to say the same thing to ourselves. The reason is that saying it to ourselves requires a movement of the will, but saying it to someone else requires only a low level of thought based on things we have heard.

Life's challenges are not meant to demoralize you. Rather, they are meant to toughen you in order for you to become stronger and eventually to discover who you are meant to be (truly). ~Emeasoba George

The easiest way to forgive yourself or others and then let go, is just to realize and also to keep on reminding yourself that you can't change your past. Yes! you can't help it. You only have the present moment and the future ahead of you to modify and to your own taste (mark you). ~Emeasoba George

Until you acknowledge and value yourself. People will for life take you for granted. Yes, nobody can/will dare to look down on you until you first look down on your own self. So, if you've lost your own self esteem i.e. your worth/ability, do endeavour to find/recover it and stand up for it as well anywhere/anytime.

You're a jewel of unquantifiable worth. Yes! that's just who you are. I mean, you worth so much. Thus, you've got to appreciate or value your own self if you've been belittling your own self. ~Emeasoba George