Quotes About Self-awareness

In your conversations, what percentage of the conversation is spent talking about you versus what is going on with the other person? Generally, people who lack empathy don't ask much about other people. They don't care. It doesn't even occur to them to ask.

Don't let anybody tell you how great they are. It's all bullshit.

My education has been so unwitting I can't quite tell which of my thoughts come from me and which from my books, but that's how I've stayed attuned to myself and the world around me for the past thirty-five years. Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.

As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.

I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know...

The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains and whip – has always created a passion for us. Black people need to find out. We have to find out Who We Are and Where We Come From.

Ne pišem svoje biografije. Z njo se ukvarjam, ko mi je potrebna za tujo.

Drop all this foolishness. Once and for all. Do not play the simpleton, do not be coy, do not lower your eyes bashfully. It will end badly someday. The dreadful line is very close here. One step, and you fall straight into the abyss. That is where the whole evil lies. Do not be embarrassed to refuse. Pretend that you never learned to dance or have broken your leg.

Quedarías tú, pero no se puede estar dentro de la piel de otro. Seríamos dos. Y tú eres completa. Tú entera ya eres demasiado; y como todo merece ser conservado, más vale que seas distinta a mí.

en büyük günah, yüreÄŸinin gerçekte hissettiÄŸini inkâr etmektir.

Not knowing when to shut up was one of my greatest faults.

It's far easier to judge others than to judge yourself.

The funny thing about believing you can do no wrong is that you quickly begin doing nothing but wrong.

If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me.

July.--I am anxious, and it soothes me to express myself here. It is like whispering to one's self and listening at the same time.

Oh, Mr Norrell! Such a noodle I am upon occasion!

I paused and examined Myself for signs of imminent madness or tendencies to self-destruction. Finding none, I read further.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

One of the great pleasures of mental health (whatever that is) is how much less time I have to spend thinking about myself.

It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.

But the fact that I couldn't hold my job was worrisome. I was probably crazy. I'd been skirting the idea of craziness for a year or two, now I was closing in on it. Pull yourself together! I told myself. Stop indulging yourself. There's nothing wrong with you. You're just wayward.

I got better and Daisy didn't and I can't explain why. Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates. I wasn't convinced I was crazy, though I feared I was. Some people say that having any conscious opinion on the matter is a mark of sanity, but I'm not sure that's true.

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same. They must reflect quite different aspects of brain function. The point is, the brain talks to itself, and by talking to itself changes its perceptions.

Translation: I need to know the particulars of craziness so I can assure myself that I'm not crazy.