Quotes About Self-awareness

Stop looking at what everyone else has! You have to figure out who you are before you can be anyone!

called thoughts. ?Every thought we think, every conscious or unconscious thought we say to ourselves, is translated into electrical impulses in the brain, which, in turn, direct the control centers in our brains to electrically and chemically affect and control every motion, every feeling, every action we take, every moment of every day. ?Whatever "thoughts" you

All too often, the words we have said to ourselves when things went wrong contributed to the problem—instead of making it better or helping us solve it.

Who am I? One fed up with his self, at war with sanity.

The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings.

I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.

Problems are messages.

Personal healing on all levels—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual—comes when we get in touch with our disowned energies.... Through integrating all aspects of ourselves, we become whole.

As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled.

Everyone we attract into our life is a mirror for us in certain ways. All of our relationships reflect certain parts of us. We all attract certain people in our life who have developed qualities opposite to the ones we are most identified with. In other words, they mirror our disowned selves, and we mirror theirs.

Your self-image is the way you see yourself, how you feel about yourself.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual sadness.

The people we are in relationship with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs. So... relationship is one of the most powerful tools for growth.... If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them.

In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.

To get in touch with different aspects of your self-image, begin to ask yourself "How do I feel about myself right now?

Yes, maybe I would write a book someday. I had always possessed a certain facility with words; when I was very young, my brother teased me so badly that one day I threw a knife at him. —No, said my mother.—Use your words. I did. I told him how selfish he was, how he was tearing our family apart with his stubborn belligerence, how he was becoming everything he hated in our father and worse. —Okay, said my mother,—don't use your words.

You have to realize where you stand, the ground underneath you, that's your battleground.

You said I was pretty, before." "Did I?" A new laugh escaped him, mirthless. "How unoriginal. I must be the master of understatement. I think you're goddamned radiant, and you know it. Sometimes I think if I look at you too long I'll go blind, like a lunatic staring straight into the sun. No," he said in a savage undertone, and let the gown fall back to the floor. "You're not pretty.

He felt beyond himself. He felt for the first time in his adult life a shadow of fear in his heart--fear for her, for what he actually wanted from her--and for himself, for what he might do.

Francis de Sales, a sixteenth-century bishop, said, "We often say that we are nothing, that we are misery itself and the refuse of the world, but we would be very sorry if anyone took us at our word or told others that we are really such as we say.

Jesus functions like a mirror. I have a face, but I can't see it without a mirror. The mirror doesn't give me a face; it only shows me what I already have. Jesus describes what he does as showing us what we already have. He reveals rather than creates.

To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye" (Matthew 7: 5).