Quotes About Self-awareness

She's, like, really, really beautiful, but I don't think she sees that when she looks in the mirror.

Ho capito di essere diversa un pò alla volta, credo. Pensavo o ricordavo le cose senza problemi, ma ero stupita di non poter fare le cose. E questo mi mandava in bestia.

I did not know I hated—I did not know there was meanness in me, and permanent dysforgiveness and scorn.

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

I did no such thing as sit there with my mouth open, though I may as well have, since I felt as if my mind was gaping. It had simply never occurred to me to wonder what kind of person I was, what kind of person I wanted to be. I had not envisioned this as something I had any control over, just as I could not alter the round shape of my face or the dense black curl of my hair.

It is always good to know who you are, what matters to you, and what you are capable of.

Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.

What she helped me learn is that even compassion has boundaries. It is not for those who get up each day and choose a path of discord. This includes me. I have learned that I do not deserve compassion either if I do the same.

Personal integrity comes from integrating our life experiences with our belief systems

But life has a way of teaching us that letting feelings run the show leads to all kinds of bad stuff.

Who's the boss - you or your feelings?

We can't buy into the lie that we are powerless over our feelings.

It is only when you get older that everyone makes you feel bad about being alone, or implies that spending time with other people is somehow better, because it proves you to be likeable. But being unlikeable wasn't the reason she was alone. She was alone so she could hear herself thinking. She was alone so she could hear herself living.

Better to have your failure right in front of you than the fantasy in your head.

The last thing that's needed is to judge your own heart, but then that's the first thing you go and do. A heart rushes to judge itself. A heart should have better things to do. A heart doesn't.

She was alone so she could hear herself thinking. She was alone so she could hear herself living.

But being unlikeable wasn't the reason she was alone. She was alone so she could hear herself thinking. She was alone so she could hear herself living.

But if my fate is truly my fate, then trying to escape it by doing whatever I can to make my life resemble some more beautiful thing will only lead me more quickly to the place I most fear. If there can be no escape from who I am, then I ought to reach my end honestly, able to tell myself, at least, that I have lived it with all of my being, making choices and deciding, and walking the whole way.

Women apologize too much, I once decided, and made myself stop, and now found it incredibly difficult to tell anyone I was sorry.

What if I've suppressed my desire for children so much that my desire is unrecognizable to me?

Now we find ourselves in the knowledge of what is cheating. It is cheating to treat oneself as an object, or as an image to tend to, or as an icon.

If you find the truth within you, it will save you. If you ignore it, it will destroy you.

The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you--just listen to The voice that speaks inside.