Quotes About Self-awareness

Mankind lives by its head Its head won't see him through Inspect your own. What lives off that? At most a louse or two.

Er hatte erkannt, dass er selber ein Kahn war

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.

But what does it mean to look after yourself? Your eyes on your own eyes? Your eyes on your own back? Your words conjuring a self-knowing, self-forgiving self? Might you soon belong to you?

words exclaimed in an empty room are pure self-conscience, the narcissist's folly.

We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

I could blame my lack of a happy ending on Edward all day long but the truth was that my own dissatisfaction with my life wasn't anybody's fault but mine. I'd been looking for a man to sweep me off my feet when I should have been looking for one who willing to pick up the pieces. Not some fictional hero, but a real flesh-and-blood man. Someone who would love me for the long haul.

They wanted to see the same Bethany they had known before—and frankly, I looked pretty changed. So I quickly set them straight: I was the same person on the inside.

Remember: A deal breaker is only a deal breaker if it is symptomatic of other destructive relationship dynamics.

There is only one thing to know. The manat is *you.* A little skin and bone to keep the sea out—but you are its weight, its balance. You and I.

From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'

As a number of scientists have noted, research on the human brain is complicated by the fact that the brain is struggling to understand itself. This three-pound organ is perhaps the only bit of matter in the universe—at least as far as we know—that is observing itself, wondering about itself, trying to analyze itself, and attempting to gain better control of its own capabilities.

Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.

Unfortunately, you may have lost touch with this inner sense because of the way you were raised and by the messages you received to the contrary.

Selfawareness—recognizing a feeling as it happens—is the keystone of emotional intelligence . . . the ability to monitor feelings from moment to moment is crucial to psychological insight and understanding. . . . People with greater certainty about their feelings are better pilots of their lives, having a surer sense of how they really feel about personal decisions.

Who're you supposed to be, Creflo Dollar's Mini-Me?

Because we can't tell others about our accomplishments if we don't know them ourselves.

What are you doing in a fancy Yankee uniform?" Sally Ann asked. Rhine didn't reply. As the silence lengthened, she offered a bitter chuckle. "Passing again, are you?" Rhine's ivory skin, jet black hair, and green eyes made it easy for him to pass as someone he wasn't. He was ten years old when he first realized he could do it successfully.