Quotes About Self-awareness

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person.'" "But I'm not." "How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?

Hay dos momentos importantes en la vida: cuando descubres que no eres como los demás y cuando descubres que no eres tan distinto como creías.

No one could tie you tighter than you could tie yourself and it was the ropes you couldn't see that bound you tightest.

A man goes to the village to visit the wise man and he says to the wise man, "I feel like there are two dogs inside me. One dog is this positive, loving, kind, and gentle dog and then I have this angry, mean-spirited, and negative dog and they fight all the time. I don't know which is going to win." The wise man thinks for a moment and he says, "I know which is going to win. The one you feed the most, so feed the positive dog.

The problem is that you are taking it too personal. Step back for a moment. Don't focus on these people personally. Forget they even have names. Don't think of it as you versus them. Just realize that they represent the negativity that will always be around you. The important thing is to know how to deal with the negativity and what to do with it.

Step 1, you do a No Complaining Day. I call it a complaining fast. You quit cold turkey. It's great because it causes you to monitor your thoughts and realize how negative you really are.

gentle dog and then I have this angry, mean-spirited, and negative dog and they fight all the time. I don't know which is going to win." The wise man thinks for a moment and he says, "I know which is going to win. The one you feed the most, so feed the positive dog.

It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way.

The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?

We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer, and it doesn't hurt more or less if God caused it or could stop it, at least for me. I am definitely of the school that believes God has bigger stuff to worry about than me.

Being able to use the word "geek" has helped me a lot to define myself, but not as a mold for me to fit myself into, as a template to help accentuate my differences.

Where does it begin this sense of being the Other?

The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you're feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.

The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells for $99...There are currently 374 mental disorders. I bought the book...and leafed through it...I closed the manual. "I wonder if I've got any of the 374 mental disorders," I thought. I opened the manual again. And instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones.

My name is Jon Snow. I know nothing.

I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.

GRUBELEIEN: German word for a not entirely unpleasant form of brooding; a sort of inward directed schadenfreude, i.e., perverse delight in one's own troubles

Namo ?jau p?s?ias , ži?r?damas, galvodamas. Aš steb?jausi savimi, kaip aš toks vienas gal?jau išaugti, kad man vis? šit? žmoni? ir viso šito gyvenimo nereikia. Ta?iau kartu taip skaudžiai ilg?jausi žmogaus. Nedaug - tik vieno, vieno vienintelio man užtekt?.

But when it came to her own behavior—to the threat she posed to herself—she'd been incapable of gauging its gravity and reluctant to avail herself of the only option for fixing it. Too little, too late, she'd now tried to address it.

I wondered where the person was who had taken my place, who wanted to know what news people had been told. I'm always looking for the person who replaces me, who thinks the things I do, who fills in for me when I'm not there. I know there is someone younger than me doing what I did and someone older doing what I will do, and someone my age being just like me.

Anxiety does not exist to control you. You exist to control it.