Quotes About Self-awareness

Only when firmly grounded in a strong real self can we live and share our lives with others in ways that are healthy, straightforward expressions of our deepest needs and desires, and in so doing find fulfillment and meaning.

protect them from feeling "bad" at the cost of a meaningful and fulfilling life.

If a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an udersized opinion of himself.

You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact.

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

You mean how do I know you are who you say you are?" Merle shrugged. "How do you know anybody is who they say they are?" She shook her head. "We lie to ourselves about who we see, we lie to ourselves about who we are. Then we buy our own lies and try to spend them as our lives.

I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit and force it to look in the mirror.

you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.

The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be "solved," then no change will occur.

To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.

That of which we are not aware, owns us.

Who do you see when you think of you? Are you an outsider, Cool, distant, angry, swimming against the current, or are you in the flow? When they tell you, This is who you are, do you say yes or no? Who do you see when you look beyond the skin and the surface, when you drift to sleep, when you are the person no one else knows? Who are you on the inside? Don't answer these questions. Not yet. First, open your eyes, your mind, your heart. See.

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

St Augustine said it best: 'Lay first the foundation of humility . . . The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Most leaders who fail,' Bill George says in an interview with Pamela Hawley, 'really suffer from a lack of a strong identity, belief in themselves and, to be frank, respect for themselves.

I feel like I'm slipping but do people who are actually slipping feel that way or is it always the really good people who are moving up who invariably think they're slipping because their standards are so high?

Righteousness is simply a humble understanding of how unrighteous one is coupled with a deep commitment to become better.

It's also hard to trust yourself when you know you're that person that might run out the door.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall down.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

I challenge you to be finished with rationalizations and hypocrisy.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.