Quotes About Self-awareness

What astonishes us most is to observe that everyone is not astonished at his own weakness.

Man's greatness come from knowing he wretched: a tree does not know it is wretched. (21)

But for this mystery [of original sin], the most incomprehensible of all, we remain incomprehensible to ourselves.

All human troubles derive from our inability to sit still and alone in a room.

Il faut se connaître soi-même: quand cela ne servirait pas à trouver le vrai, cela au moins sert à régler sa vie, et il n'y a rien de plus juste

O rei está rodeado de pessoas cujo único pensamento é divertir o rei, e evitar que ele pense em si mesmo. Porque ele será infeliz, embora rei, se pensar em si mesmo.

Comme on se gâte l'esprit, on se gâte aussi le sentiment.

There are only two kinds of men: righteous men who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous. Pascal, Pensées

Todos los problemas de la humanidad parten de la incapacidad humana de sentarse calmado en una habitación.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone

my grandpa and grandma aren't like me. They're more like sheets drying outside on a breezy day--they change directions without any fuss. But me, if I was a sheet and the wind blew me, I'd never stop flapping.

Just as important, thinking about an exit plan will force you to ask important, difficult questions about yourself.

If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.

I'm glad I'm not me

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

Truth was the last thing on my mind, and even if there was such a thing, I didn't want it in my house. Oedipus went looking for the truth and when he found it, it ruined him. It was a cruel horror of a joke. So much for the truth. I was gonna talk out of both sides of my mouth and what you heard depended on which side you were standing. If I ever did stumble on any truth, I was gonna sit on it and keep it down.

Why am I walking, where am I running What am I saying, what am I knowing On this guitar I'm playing, on this banjo I'm frailin' On this mandolin I'm strummin', in the song I'm singin' In the tune I'm hummin', in the words I'm writin' In the words that I'm thinkin' In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinkin' Who am I helping, what am I breaking What am I giving, what am I taking

Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.

Destiny is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about will come true. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

You have to develop enough common sense to know what you can't do and focus on what you can. Know your limits. If you can't do it, don't, and say so

Do you want to know what you think about most of the time? Take a look at the results you're getting. That will tell you exactly what's going on inside.

He had come to understand that we choose the lies in which we participate and, in choosing, define ourselves and our actions for a very long time, perhaps forever

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson