#awareness

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#defiance #empowerment #independence #individuality #self-assurance

If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, that’s just what I’ll do. It’s this kind of regard for others that makes me believe I’d be a good politician. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#awareness #bad #fight #good #oppression

But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head. ↗

— Jay Asher

#self-awareness #reason

Find out who you are and do it on purpose. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#self-awareness #purpose

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. ↗

— Abraham Harold Maslow

#psychology #self-awareness #understanding #achievement

She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself. ↗

— Iain Pears

#individuality #search #self-awareness #self-reliance #dreams

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#self-awareness #sun

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. ↗

— Emily Post

#feelings #fork #good #good manners #manners

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#self-awareness #self-control #ego

If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#ritual #self-awareness #witches