Self Awareness Honesty Self Quotes

“I'll tell you what's real. Real is that I was in jail for the past year, rooming with drug dealers and eating crap food your dog wouldn't touch. Real is not being able to wear your own frickin' underwear and showering with twenty-five other dicks every day while guards watch. Real is my next-door neighbor who walks like she's balancing on stilts because her leg is so fucked up from the accident. Brian, your perception of reality is totally off.”
― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

“The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.”
― Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe

“Five Truths About Your Inner Voice:

1. It is here, always available, wherever you are, however you feel, whatever you have done.

2. It is solely on your side.

3. It knows what's absolutely right for you.

4. It is your friend, your ally, your guide, your ultimate supporter.

5. It is always with you and for you.

Whenever you're feeling perplexed, uneasy, anxious, mad, frustrated, sick, or any other other way you don't want to feel, ask your Inner Voice. Listen.”
― Noelle Sterne, Trust Your Life: Forgive Yourself and Go After Your Dreams

“Stop competing, stop judging, stop comparing, stop blaming and better you, for you.”
― Turcois Ominek

“Culture is like a giant mirror which enables us to see who we are
more clearly. The various facets of a culture also provide us with the means to change what we do not like in the mirror, and retain what we cherish most.”
― Dr Robin Lincoln Wood, The Trouble with Paradise: A Humorous Enquiry into the Puzzling Human Condition in the 21st Century

“... tried praying for him ...but I couldn't. I just couldn't. Don't ask me why. I hoped that he was okay, but I couldn't summon the strength to pray for it.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog

“Authenticity is a continual process of building self-awareness, a journey through which we acknowledge both our strengths and our limitations, and come to identify a noble purpose.”
― Tom Hayes

“What a difference it would have made to have friends such as these during her difficult growing-up years. She might not have spent so much time hiding and pretending and wondering if she would ever get to be the person she was.”
― Sarah M. Eden

“Quote from Chai ❤️‘a review: “I owe an older version of myself some semblance of a past—not a past to outrun but to turn around and embrace. I owe them memories of some kind of happiness, of deep-bone contentment. Like the characters in this book, I don’t want to find myself at the finish line, realizing that I’ve never run the race.”
― Adam Silvera

“I do not run from beauty, my own or anyone else's. If it is a gift, I claim it and I use it. And if it is a curse, well...I claim it and use it." Victoria da Vinci”
― Austin Scott Collins, Dicing Time for Gladness

“We are our own biggest enemy. We criticize ourselves in a harsh way about everything, our looks, our weight, our careers, our failures and success, the way people treat us; the list goes on. Instead of critiquing ourselves and putting ourselves down, how about tapping ourselves on the shoulder and saying “I did goooood”. GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK.”
― Paitingroads.com

“Wisdom for Today: Before you jump on that Band Wagon you'd be wise to check where in the hell it's going.”
― Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army

“Just as you can't give a ride to anyone when your car is full, you can never authentically love anyone, including yourself, when your heart is filled with emotional turmoil.”
― Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

“I write this until I believe it, which doesn't take long because I want to believe it. It is comforting to think the defect is mine, because that means it is under my power.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“There are three kinds of people: the ones who need to be accepted and copy anything that can help them get admiration, so that they can exchange their identity for respect. Then, you have the ones who have given up on wanting to be accepted and impose their will on others in order to exchange fear for acceptance. Finally, you have those who simply are as they wish to be, and they can be happy one way or another. These are difficult to find and when found difficult to understand for the others, although all seek the same, which is a self-awareness through the meaning of life.”
― Dan Desmarques

“I may wear a mask
For the world tonight
But I owe it to my heart
To be true to Me- inside”
― Nikhita Rao, On a Stroll

“My best friend would say I had Daddy issues. Yeah, I’d say so too.”
― Scarlet Ibis James, Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire