Quotes About Self-awareness

Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice. Once we begin to replace negative thinking with positive thinking, it becomes utterly clear that, far from being realistic, negative thinking is absolutely disenabling.

Simply learning how we have acquired feelings of worthlessness rarely enables us to change things; it is usually one stage of the process.

In the more than fourteen years we were together we were too busy repeating old patterns learned in childhood, acting on misguided information about the nature of love, to appreciate the changes we needed to make in ourselves to be able to love someone else.

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

I will tell you this much; it is the moment (not the year or the month, mind you, nor even the hour, but the very second) when a man is grown up, when he sees things as they are (that is, backwards), and feels solidly himself. Do I make myself clear? No matter, it is the Shock of Maturity, and that must suffice for you.

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

When I entered Yale, I had to face two important facts about myself. First, though I could consider myself a smart enough person — I was not quite as smart as I thought I was. Second, I did not know how to do in-depth studying.

I came to understand that very day that I was always angry because I was selfish. I felt that someone was always infringing on my rights, getting in my space, messing with my things, disregarding my positions, and so on, which offended me, leading to inappropriate behavior. Through wisdom provided by God it dawned on me that I should step outside of the center of the circle so that everything wasn't always about me.

facts about myself. First, though I could consider myself a smart enough person — I was not quite as smart as I thought I was. Second, I did not know how to do in-depth studying.

how important it was to learn your own strengths and weaknesses from your mistakes.

After less than a week on campus I discovered I wan't that bright. All the students were bright; many of them extremely gifted and perceptive. Yale was a great leveler for me, because I now studied, worked, and lived with dozens of high-achieving students, and I didn't stand out among them.

in order to be fair, we must have a firm grasp of who we are as a people and what is important to us. If we don't, the forces of political correctness will gradually blur the lines between tolerance and acceptance, to the point that we will soon have no idea who we are or what we stand for. This process has already begun in our nation, and we must recognize it in order to stop it in its tracks.

Mathois said, 'The nearer a man comes to God, the more he sees himself to be a sinner. Isaiah the prophet saw the Lord and knew himself to be wretched and unclean (Is. 6:5).

the investor's chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself.

Only a fool takes pride in pretending that a skill he doesn't possess is worthless.

There comes a moment in life when we see ourselves as others see us. I suppose that is part of growing up, and it is not always comfortable. Eanflæd

There comes a moment in life when we see ourselves as others see us. I suppose that is part of growing up, and it is not always comfortable.

I was hated, and I knew it. Part of it was my fault, I am arrogant.

Anch'io sono consapevole del cattivo uso che ho fatto della mia vita, di come passa in fretta e di come la butto via. Pretendo da me più di quello che ottengo, forse più di quello che ho ottenuto. Siamo due falliti, signor Levin?»

Dans le regard des autres, nous recherchons d'abord notre propre reflet. Nous nous mettons en quête d'un unique miroir de référence. Cela signifie se mettre en quête de l'amour mais, en fait, il s'agit plutôt de la quête de sa propre identité. Un coup de foudre s'avère souvent la trouvaille d'un bon miroir, nous renvoyant un reflet satisfaisant de nous-même. On cherche alors à s'aimer dans le regard de l'autre.

Souviens-toi que tu n'es qu'un homme.»

What matters most to me, is that I know how I feel, and the rest of the world might catch up one day, even if it'll be a quiet revolution over longer than my lifetime, if it happens at all

In every part of my life, too, I stood outside myself and watched; I saw myself functioning at the university, with my parents and brother and sister and my friends, but inwardly I felt no involvement.

I knew none of it then - if indeed I know any of it now and am not just making patterns in the air.