Quotes About Self-awareness

I didn't think friendship required this much, snapped Elphaba to Boq, I was better off before.

Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear to her yet.

Quando os tempos são cruciais, quando o ar está cheio de crise, aqueles que são mais parecidos consigo mesmos são as vítimas.

Glinda was changed. She knew it herself. She had come to Shiz a vain, silly thing, and she now found herself in a coven of vipers. Maybe it was her own fault.

Hello, this is I, and these are my arms and legs, which are useful, and this inconvenient hump is my sorrow, which is less than useful, but I've learned how to hump it around, so pay it no mind.

But he found himself rounding syllables like stones in his mouth, silently. He knew he was shy, and thought to be stupid; he was beginning to suspect, thought, that he wasn't stupid. Perhaps not even slow. Merely uneducated. But not, he hoped, uneducable.

you have to do that kind of work for yourself. If you do it for other people, you end up wanting them to acknowledge it and to be grateful and to give you credit. If you do it for yourself, you don't expect other people to react in a particular way.

We won't make ourselves more creative and productive by copying other people's habits, even the habits of geniuses; we must know our own nature, and what habits serve us best.

I have an idea of who I wish I were, and that obscures my understanding of who I actually am. Sometimes I pretend even to myself to enjoy activities that I don't really enjoy, such as shopping, or to be interested in subjects that don't much interest me, such as foreign policy.

I have an idea of who I wish I were, and that obscures my understanding of who I actually am.

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.

It's been freeing to focus on what works for me rather than what's wrong with me.

Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.

For each Tendency, one question matters most: Upholders ask: Should I do this? Questioners ask: Does this make sense? Obligers ask: Does this matter to anyone else? Rebels ask: Is this the person I want to be?

W. H. Auden articulated this tension beautifully: "Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the difference between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

There's no magic formula—not for ourselves, and not for the people around us. We won't make ourselves more creative and productive by copying other people's habits, even the habits of geniuses; we must know our own nature, and what habits serve us best.

By mindfully deciding how to act in line with my values instead of mindlessly applying my rules, I was better able to make the decisions that supported my happiness.

The happiest and most successful people are those who have figured out ways to exploit their Tendency to their benefit and, just as important, found ways to counterbalance its limitations.

I started thinking more about music. I thought I'd accepted the fact that, as part of Being Gretchen, I didn't really like music, but in fact, the truth was slightly different: I thought I didn't like music, but in fact, I didn't approve of my own taste--I wished I liked sophisticated music, like jazz or classical or esoteric rock. Instead, my taste ran mostly to what might play on a lite FM station. Oh, well. Be Gretchen.

Self-measurement brings self-awareness, and self-awareness strengthens our self-control.

You're not happy unless you think you're happy.

To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right.

See the child you have," as the saying goes, "not the child you wish you had." In the end, I agreed with Michel de Montaigne: "The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

But it doesn't matter what we think a person (or ourselves) should be able to do - what matter is only what works for each individual.