Quotes About Self-awareness

Human love is mostly selfishness; all the time it thinks only of the little 'i'. That 'i' is the ego.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron

I've got no one to blame for every time I feel lame.

As the only girl growing up for a long time with only boys, as you pointed out, it seems like I was always surrounded by guys. There was this sense in which my female body was a problem.

Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.

I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.

I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.

Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me.

Be who you are. If you spend all of your time worrying about how people view you, you will not be either faithful to yourself or effective in what you're trying to do.

Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

Well, it only dawned on me about six months ago that not everybody's against me all the time. It was something of a revelation.

I'm not sure I have a natural gift. I think it's just that some people have an easier time expressing their emotions, maybe because of the way they've been raised, and I've always been expressive.

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself.

Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

I'm imperfect. There are things in time that will bother me, but I don't dwell on them. It's another thing to dwell on it your whole day and let it bother you.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

I never really spent time being jealous. Maybe I should have.

I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.

I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.

Now that 'Scrubs' is over, people seem to feel more comfortable telling me that I was a total douche to them for the past 8 years. And the whole time I'm thinking, 'Who ARE you?'

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

I stopped Googling myself a long time ago. I'm sure there's plenty of misinformation out there, but I am blissfully unaware of it.