Quotes About Self-awareness

A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.

He is most cheated who cheats himself.

Mistakes are lessons in disguise and accurate reflections of your true state. Maybe you need to slow down. Maybe your initial expectation was actually what was wrong. Maybe you need to draw more often.

These voices — the inner critic, the inner nag, the inner pest, the inner jerk and all the other monsters who try to talk you out of moving forward— are the part of you that is threatened by change and progress. We all have them. They are trying to protect you from new and scary things, but they are out of sync with you right now and not helpful. They hate what you are doing, but that doesn't make them right

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

One moment you are young And full of innocent dreams. The next moment you look into a mirror To see eyes filled with years of pain Glaring back at you Swimming in their own horror.

Sometimes I look at myself and think, Is this it?, and then I think, Yes, it is. This is literally the best you will ever look. Tomorrow, you will look just a little bit worse, and this is how it will go, for ever.

I was her world, yes, and I was at that point we all reach where I was denying she was mine. I'd never quiet forgive myself for that.

Please understand: I wear glasses. This was no place for a man with glasses.

Working on ourselves is very important, but it's also important that we don't get so caught up in analyzing ourselves that we become the one thing standing in our own way.

He descubierto que no puedes comenzar a ser detallista con los demás, si primero no te miras hacia adentro. Por lo que, básicamente, desarrollé la capacidad de reírme de mi mismo.

la necesidad lo hizo sacar del anaquel un libro antiguo, y el azar lo llevo a las paginas donde el autor declara que un hombre, para ser algo en la vida, debe tener claro que quiere ser y cuales son sus limites.

I wondered if whiteness were contagious. If it were, then surely I had caught it. I imagined this "condition" affected the way I walked, talked, dressed, danced, and at its most advanced stage, the way I looked at the world and at other people.

Certain feelings and actions become decisions, rather than the other way around.

She is shaking, nearly dizzy, alarmed by her own cruelty. It is the first time she has ever felt within herself something so awful - this enormous capacity for betrayal.

Louise often feels like part of her is "acting." At the same time , "there is another part 'inside' that is not connecting with the me that is talking to you," she says. When the depersonalization is at its most intense, she feels like she just doesn't exist. These experiences leave her confused about who she really is, and quite often, she feels like an "actress" or simply, "a fake.

Trapped within the confines of his mind, he is too aware of every thought passing through it, as if he were outside, looking in. At night he often lies awake ruminating endlessly about what's wrong with him, about death, and about the meaning of existence itself. At times his arms and legs feel like they don't belong with his body. But most of the time, his mind feels like it is operating apart from the body that contains it.

When you find yourself in a position where you could easily point an accusing finger—or have an accusing finger pointed at you—think, trust, and forgive.

Anyone claiming to be perfect at what they do is proof they don't know what the hell they're doing.

Taking one's self too seriously is a true display of a persons deep seated inadequacies.

There's something different about you," he says. "I've started styling my hair differently," I laugh. "Oh. I thought it was that you were three feet taller, a hell of a lot broader, look like a werewolf, and are naked expect for that bit of cloth around your waist. But you're right - it's the hair.

Loving yourself means realizing you're greater than the title on your business card or the grades on a school progress report. Whatever you think your purpose is in life now, know that it isn't necessarily your destiny, and destiny isn't purpose.

You should not confuse your career with your life.

Emshandar's problems were his fault. He who wakes the dog must bear the bite, his mother had always said.