Quotes About Self-awareness

I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness. So I became a woman, and here I am.

Pero una persona tienen que estar completamente desesperada una vez en su vida y, entonces sabe a qué cosas de sí misma no puede renunciar. Si no, llega a la madurez sin saber qué es realmente lo que importa

Se sei sempre arrabbiata con gli altri, se non fai che dargli addosso, vuol dire che dipendi da loro.

People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.

Capii che io non ero il centro del mondo. La quota di sofferenze nella vita non variava certo in rapporto a me. Non ero io che potevo decidere. Allora, pensai, tanto valeva godersi, per quanto possibile, il resto.

People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.

There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.

Asked about my technique, I grow evasive. I'm not aware I have any.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

As far as the functioning of your mind is concerned, it doesn't matter what you feel. It doesn't matter to anyone else, and it matters least of all to yourself.

Go with your Strengths and Develop Your Passions to Discover your Purpose.

Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and actions that lead to an unhealthy lifestyle and eventually to illness.... Illness can thus be understood as a lesson you have given yourself to help you remember who you are.

Christians are not particularly gifted at knowing how we sound to others, especially in parts of the world where our voices are the loudest and most numerous.

our comfort or discomfort with the outer dark is a good barometer of how we feel about the inner kind.

I learned that sadness does not sink a person; it is the energy a person spends trying to avoid sadness that does that.

Without benefit of maturity or therapy, I had no way of knowing that the darkness was as much inside me as it was outside me, or that I had any power to affect its hold on me.

Watching them ride the waves of their own dark emotions, I learned that sadness does not sink a person; it is the energy a person spends trying to avoid sadness that does that.

Yet even this turned out to be helpful, since recognizing my jerkdom is how I remember that is not who I want to be.

Reason can only work with the experience available to it. Wisdom atrophies if it is not walked on a regular basis.

Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can. If we want to hear and see more, even the parts that expose our scornfulness, we need partners from outside our ingroups to keep telling us how we sound.

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

He said telling someone else what they're doing wrong isn't the same as being able to do it yourself.

Please . . . don't do this. Don't try to get in my head and figure me out. I promise you, it isn't worth it.