Quotes About Self-awareness

Being me is not a fate everyone would enjoy. There are risks, and frequent disappointments. I'm not all that keen on the arrangement myself, to be honest.

you have become all the things you have done and thought, and now can't undo or unthink.

Wherever you go, and whatever you do, the first thing you're going to see in the morning, and the last thing at night, is the inside of your own head. An unchanging landscape, a still photograph.

Benjamin Stallworth understood his shortcomings and was rendered unhappy by that understanding. He was upright enough to wish for correction but too weak to enforce it upon himself.

Becoming a genuine individual requires learning the oppositions within oneself. Those who fail or refuse to face the oppositions within have no choice but to find enemies to project upon. Enemy simply means a not-friend; unless a person deals with the not-friend within they require enemies around them.

If you don't know who you are, anyone can name you.

Record all the things you like about yourself—your positive qualities, characteristics, and traits. Include the successes you have had in every area of your life: work, home, school, and so on. Keep adding to this list as you think of more things and as you accomplish more. Acknowledging yourself, your abilities, and your own unique qualities will encourage you to get moving.

I have brought evil to many places," he said, "but usually there has already been evil to match mine. I seek no excuses, for I know what I am and I know what I have done. I have slain malignant sorcerers and destroyed oppressors, but I have also been responsible for slaying fine men, and a woman, my cousin, whom I loved, I killed—or my sword did.

It is ironic that I saved both myself and those I cared for by recalling, at the crucial moment, my identity as an ordinary mortal. There are subtle dangers to the role of hero. I am glad I no longer have to consider them.

So what was better for us all? An ignorance, or a cautiousness like his, towards our own hearts.

Ä°nsan?n aÄŸz? kendisine olan güvenini ya da güvensizliÄŸini, k?sacas? kiÅŸiliÄŸiyle ilgili pek çok ayr?nt?y? ele verir.

as if Morphy had invented a great philosophical profundity on his way to the opera. That happens, of course, when you are not looking at yourself too carefully.

She wanted Kip to know her only in the present, a person perhaps more flawed or more compassionate or harder or more obsessed than the girl or young woman she had been then.

With his wounds, his unbalance, the grey curls at the back of his neck. He had never imagined himself to be a man with a sense of age and wisdom. They had all grown older, but he still did not feel he had wisdom to go with his aging.

You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.

He'd been a secretive man for most of his life, and now was disconcerted by the secrets he had kept from himself.

We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.

If you don't listen to yourself, it's unlikely that anyone else will. Listening to yourself means not only respecting your own feelings but also getting to know something about your style of communicating.

Can a recognition of one's shallowness qualify as a profound insight?

The usual antonym for the word "spiritual" is "material." That at least is what I believed when I began this inquiry—that the whole issue with spirituality turned on a question of metaphysics. Now I'm inclined to think a much better and certainly more useful antonym for "spiritual" might be "egotistical.

How can we be certain, he was suggesting, that our experience of consciousness is "authentic"? The answer is we can't;

This was huge for me. I saw that if I can name and admit a feeling, confess it to someone, it would let go. A little older and wiser, now I can do this for myself.

Now I'm inclined to think a much better and certainly more useful antonym for "spiritual" might be "egotistical." Self

neuroscience might have at last found the address for the "But enough about you" center of the brain.