Quotes About Self-awareness

My idea of "this is the kind of person I am" is so bound up in my habits and actions that it's hard for me to see. But eventually, I realized that my sense of identity makes it easier or harder to change a habit.

feelings, so that I suffered less guilt, remorse, shame, anger, envy, boredom, and irritation. Also easy to understand.

But it doesn't matter what we think a person (or ourselves) "should be able to" do—what matters is only what works for each individual. To help people change their habits or behavior, we should help get them what they need to succeed, whether that's more clarity, more information, more outer accountability, or more choices.

The first and most important habits question is: "How does a person respond to an expectation?" When we try to form a new habit, we set an expectation for ourselves. Therefore, it's crucial to understand how we respond to expectations.

When we give more to ourselves, we can ask more from ourselves.

I've learned to resist my inclination to meet an expectation unthinkingly, and to ask, "Why am I meeting this expectation, anyway?

The most important thing is to know ourselves, and to choose the strategies that work for us.

It's a Secret of Adulthood: If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn't selfish.

One regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality. —OSCAR WILDE

We can build our habits only on the foundation of our own nature.

It was interesting to have a better sense of my daily habits

Two kinds of clarity support habit formation: clarity of values and clarity of action. The clearer I am about what I value, and what action I expect from myself—not what other people value, or expect from me—the more likely I am to stick to my habits.

When we hear our voice coming from somewhere else, it sounds higher and thinner, which is why so many people dislike hearing recordings of themselves.

Now that I know I'm an Upholder, an Abstainer, a Marathoner, a Finisher, and a Lark, and have spent a lot of time thinking about what is, and isn't, important to me, I'm much better able to shape my habits.

another reason not to say critical things about other people: "spontaneous trait transference." Studies show that because of this psychological phenomenon, people unintentionally transfer to me the traits I ascribe to other people.

Habit makes it dangerously easy to become numb to our own existence.

I wasnt political in order to be political

Six mirrors keep staring at one another (Monday rue Christine)

Tenha cuidado com a tristeza. É um vício.

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

Then she asked herself, Isn't he in love with someone? Who could it be? …Why, it's me! All the evidence immediately became clear to her, and her heart leapt.

No ho feia pas per ell, per bé que ell s'ho cregués així, ans per ella mateixa, per una expansió egoista.

But life is not a series of deeds. My life is my thoughts.