Quotes about Self-awareness

You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.

Maybe I am different now, Twyla. But you're not. You're the same little state kid who kicked a poor old black lady when she was down on the ground. You kicked a black lady and you have the nerve to call me a bigot.

Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. She would only see what there was to see: the eyes of other people.

You don't have any weaknesses?' 'I haven't found any.

Only one mirror has not been covered with chalky paint and that one the man ignores. He does not want to see himself stalking females or their liquid.

But any time you have a thought in your head about you that didn't come from the heart of God, you're trespassing against your own body.

Taking ownership for your decisions and your problems is the only way to ever become a healthy person.

Self-sabotage is the common denominator in all forms of anxiety and depression, whether rooted in the body, soul or spirit.

most important keys to winning these battles is simply to recognize that these thoughts are not our own and to reject all ownership of them.

The truth is, you do not always have power over what happens to you, but you do have complete control over what happens in you.