Quotes About Self-awareness

Charlotte sat before her vanity, pinning up her hair and counting her chins.

Remind yourself that you're far more likely to undercharge than overcharge, my dear, because you don't yet understand your own value and you've never been taught to demand your full worth.

Remind yourself that you're far more likely to undercharge than overcharge, my dear, because you don't yet understand your own value and you've never been taught to demand your full worth." She smiled. "That's why I appointed myself the bursar of this operation, because I've had to learn both.

P.S. I fear that in person I shall prove to be a sore disappointment. With pen and paper I am at ease; in the solitude of my own company my thoughts and ideas flow without obstruction. But before others it takes me the greatest effort to string two words together, and more often than not my words emerge awkward and off-putting.

Mrs. Watson pressed the heavy coin into Charlotte's palm and closed her fingers around it. "Remind yourself that you're far more likely to undercharge than overcharge, my dear, because you don't yet understand your own value and you've never been taught to demand your full worth." She smiled. "That's why I appointed myself the bursar of this operation, because I've had to learn both.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

In order to feel more, and to feel more like ourselves, we connect. But in our rush to connect, we flee solitude. In time, our ability to be separate and gather ourselves is diminished. If we don't know who we are when we are alone, we turn to other people to support our sense of self. This makes it impossible to fully experience others as who they are. We take what we need from them in bits and pieces; it is as though we use them as spare parts to support our fragile selves.

A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, "There you go again; let's call this to a halt. You can do something different." Often the first step toward doing something different is developing the capacity to not act, to stay still and reflect.

When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.

Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine.

We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.

Research tells us that being comfortable with our vulnerabilities is central to our happiness, our creativity, and even our productivity.

But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude. THE

In solitude we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours. When we are secure in ourselves we are able to listen to other people and really hear what they have to say. And then in conversation with other people we become better at inner dialogue.

We can't relate to others until we are comfortable with ourselves. That's a psychoanalytic first principle: If you don't teach your children to be alone, they'll only know how to be lonely.

When we know that everything in our lives is captured, will we begin to live the life that we hope to have archived?

Solitude does not necessarily mean being alone. It is a state of conscious retreat, a gathering of the self. The capacity for solitude makes relationships with others more authentic. Because you know who you are, you can see others for who they are, not for who you need them to be. So solitude enables richer conversation.

bioengineers but by those who know who we are.

There is no use my not facing everything frankly. By facing everything frankly one gets everything quite cleared up.

I am becoming old and queer.

I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.

To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others." These harsh words pierced me to the core.

You became an adult when you stopped caring what other people thought about you and started to care what you thought about them.

I've gotten crankier in my old age.