Quotes About Self-awareness

Someone who is comfortable in their own company and can be alone without feeling unduly anxious, defensive or half-alive is experiencing solitude

Heterosexuals often fall into the trap of expecting all their emotional needs to be met by the other person.

Someone who has a similar confidence in their own inner reality, and who trusts that they go on existing whether or not anyone else is present, does not need to be constantly checking on their sense of self. They are, without much thinking about it, 'calm, restful, relaxed and feeling one with people and things when no excitement is around'.

Many people who find it hard to be alone blame or despise themselves (or know themselves so little they do not realise that they can't be alone but fill their lives with work, people, noise, booze or drugs).

The greater part of our lives is spent with ourselves, no matter where or with what other people we may live . . . our imagination is the only companion chained to us for the whole of existence.' Charlotte Wolff

your connections with others can only be as rewarding as the connection you have with the only 'someone' with whom you live every moment of your life: your own self. Being in good contact with your own self, welcoming time with your own self as you might welcome time with a friend: this makes being with others less essential (I can't bear to be alone) or perhaps less dangerous (I can't be with others. They are sure to hate me/find me out/ignore me/crush me).

Understanding yourself better, you will see that what happens to you matters less than your own reactions. This is wonderful because you always have far more choice and control about your reactions than you do about "what happens.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. — RITA MAE BROWN

Once we stop asking ourselves to be happy or perfect or anything else other than what is simply true for us in the moment, we can more easily stop asking the same of others as well.

You all have another month to encourage these kids to do what they do best-" "Not just what they do best!" E.D. protested. Jake nodded. "If that's all they do, how will they ever find out the rest of who they are?

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life.

One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

Do you love the truth more than you need to be loved, or do you need to be loved more than you love the truth?

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop!

Truth is within ourselves.

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.