Quotes About Self-awareness

I think what you'll discover more and more as you get older is that most people aren't thinking about you at all.

I can feel it everyday, the limit of my ability.

I didn't know anything about perimenopause, including that I was in it, until I had already been in it for years, despite having an array of hallmark impacts: painful cystic acne, hot flashes, night sweats, anxiety, depression including a resurgence of my suicidality, menstrual changes, digestive issues, body-composition shifts, an increase in headaches and other kinds of pain, exhaustion, and some serious cognitive challenges.

Understanding, acceptance, and management (or not!) of your choosing really are the names of the game here: they are what's actually doable and also won't make you feel even shittier about yourself than perimenopause can make you feel already.

Everyone can and should learn to be a better observer... Observing your world carefully, becoming aware of your own bias, of your own previously held beliefs and how they limit what you can see — it's utterly necessary if you are to have independence of thought. And if you don't have independence of thought, what do you have?

It showed her that a person's personality could change radically, that you could never really know someone. In fact, you could probably never know yourself. You could think of yourself as the most fun-loving, generous person but actually be cutthroat and indecent.

Whereas the Greeks had Zeus and Athena, we had people who still lived in Verdun. They had a lot to bear on their shoulders. They had to invent the whole world themselves. They were supposed to have supernatural powers and achieve sainthood. When really they just found themselves peering into the mirror above the bathroom sink, looking to see how they were aging. Sitting in the bathtub, smoking a cigarette, terrified of death like the rest of us.

Felix was in his room singing into a tape recorder then playing it back and exclaiming, "My God. Do I actually sound like this? All this time I thought that I was a great singer, but I don't have any talent whatsoever!

And a one-night stand made you feel as if you had just been invented. You were with someone who couldn't quite believe in your existence … In longer relationships you end up having to think up all sorts of fantastic fantasies to be excited by the person. but now, the first night you are enough. Who really wanted to know themselves? Instead I could exist happily in this world of first impressions.

We can only make sense of ourselves in relation to someone or something. To be a person, we must be recognized as a person.

I am not interested in emotional fuckwittage.

You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

The plans to lose weight and change personality kept me aloft for two days, only to collapse around my ears. I realize it was only a complicated form of denial.

Everything's just so good now, because, as Dad says, 'It's coming from the inside, not the outside.

Une femme doit savoir en quoi elle croit, sinon, comment les autres pourraient croire en elle ?

Jadi, cetus Cosmo seraya menuangkan minuman untukku. Bagaiman kehidupan cintamu? Ya ampun. Kenapa sih mereka bertanya begitu? Kenapa? Mungkin Suami-Istri-Puas-Diri hanya bergaul dengan sesama Suami-Istri-Puas-Diri dan tidak tahu lagi bagaimana berinteraksi dengan individu lain. Mungkin mereka memang ingin merendahkan dan membuat kami merasa seperti manusia gagal. - Bridget Jones's Diary hlm.63

Father, I scarcely dare to pray, So clear I see, now it is done, That I have wasted half my day And left my work but just begun. A Last Prayer

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

What I am looking for is not out there. It is in me.

There's one thing I know for sure: When I'm most opinionated, my writing sucks.

I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.

When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it always is being honest with myself: What am I into right now? Is it rock bands and guitars, is it noise, is it dance beats and electronics? Is it space, is it clutter?

My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert.