Quotes About Self-awareness

You have several significant flaws, including that once you are convinced you are capable of one thing of a certain scale, you are equally convinced you can handle more. You do not allow for their cumulative effects upon you. You are doing what you can.

I'm getting too old to hit attractive men over the head and carry them off. And the sad part is, I'm so old that's the only way I can get them!

Stupid people never doubted themselves. Intelligent ones, however, went straight to self-examination whenever anything bad happened. Did I deserve this? Did I bring it on myself? Did I somehow do something that I shouldn't have?

I have a very hard time getting to rage. I always assume that maybe I've done something wrong and then forgotten about it.

He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He had grown up. What a boy had set out to seek a man had found, found by the act of living.

At this point, my greatest enemy was myself. Self-doubt can be crushing, and sometimes it is hard to see outside the black bubble.

He who exalts himself shall be humbled; and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.

Everyone always warms to people who can laugh at themselves. It's human nature - and the best jokes are always against ourselves. It shows character, humility and grace.

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.

there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out in the way that I live and the way that I talk and present myself.

When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.

The heart of justice is truth telling, seeing ourselves and the world the way it is rather than the way we want to be.

Self-acceptance is hard for many of us. There is a voice inside that is constantly judging, first ourselves and then others.

It is not true that men are unwilling to change. It is true that many men are afraid to change. It is true that masses of men have not even begun to look at the ways that patriarchy keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. To know love, men must be able to let go the will to dominate.

Most black people are anti-racist (even those who have internalized racial self-hatred) and will not argue that whites are better, superior, and should rule over us. Yet most black people are not anti-sexist (even those whose life circumstance may make it impossible for them to rigidly conform to sexist roles) and will argue the natural superiority of men, supporting their right to dominance in the family and in the world outside the home.

When we can see ourselves as we truly are and accept ourselves, we build on the necessary foundation for self-love.

The presence of pain in our lives is not an indicator of dysfunction.

With therapeutic help, I was able to see the term dysfunctional as useful description and not as an absolute negative judgment.

The heart of justice is truth telling, seeing ourselves and the world the way it is rather than the way we want it to be.

Clearly, men need new models for self-assertion that do not require the construction of an enemy "other

It is far too easy to stay stuck in simply describing, telling one's story over and over again, which can be a way of holding on to grief about the past or holding on to a narrative that places blame on others.

To practice the art of loving we have first to choose love—admit to ourselves that we want to know love and be loving even if we do not know what that means.

Lerner outlines the various ways in which constant pretense and lying alienate women from their true feelings, how it leads to depression and loss of self-awareness.