Quotes About Self-awareness

It's like living your whole life without ever looking in a mirror, Amy thought, and suddenly you see your reflection, and you're a monster.

anger is the emotion of a lesser person.

He felt old at eleven. Amy

Through the years I came to realize that some of the most important insights I gained about myself came not from my friends but from my critics who, while playing rough, nevertheless alerted me to blind spots and inadequacies no one else had the courage to tell me about.

We will know that we have learned this significant principle when we come to the point at which the development and maintenance of a strong inner world becomes the most important single function of our existences.

Don't underestimate the significance of this principle. Today in our media-fashioned world many good and talented leaders face the constant temptation to begin believing the text of their own publicity releases. And if they do, a messianic fantasy gradually infects their personalities and leadership styles. Forgetting who they are not, they begin to make dangerous assumptions about who they are.

Carl Jung explained that we tend to attack in others what we are most uncomfortable with in ourselves. When vulnerability is the enemy, it is attacked wherever it is perceived, even in a best friend.

How hungrily we read about ourselves!

It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

I have never been an eavesdropper, even in childhood. Not from any sense of virtue but because I really do not want to know what people think of me or, to be precise, what they say of me - often a different matter. I can usually imagine the unpleasant judgements, for we are what others needs us to be. That is why our reputations change so often and so drastically, reflecting no particular change in us, merely a change in the mood of those who observe us.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.

The fat man smiled. "But do you have the nerve to tell the world about yourself?" Paul sighed and looked at his hands. "No," he said, "I don't." "So what can we do, if we're all too frightened?" "Live with dignity, I suppose. And try to learn to love one another, as they say.

The unfed mind devours itself

Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.

She had always called me 'you.' 'Is that you?' on the telephone, 'Can you? Will you? Do you?' so that I imagined, like a fool, for a few minutes at a time, there was only one 'you' in the world and that was me.

With goodness one can feel secure; why wasn't I satisfied with goodness, why did I always ask her the wrong questions?

He was as incapable of imagining pain or danger to himself as he was incapable of conceiving the pain he caused others.

We all were shaped by how others see us as much as our own character. - Svafnir Rackwulf

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it...

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

We live in the stories we tell ourselves.

Self-awareness: there is the black worm in the apple. Our curse is to know there's something terribly wrong with us.

I begin to rant. I'm special, I have needs, I have a job to do—once I get my act together. I'm going to be important.

Kaye glared at him for a moment, both challenged and exasperated. "We don't have to posit self-awareness, conscious thought, to have an organized network that responds to its environment and issues judgments about what its individual nodes should look like," Kaye said.