Quotes About Self-awareness

The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be a monarch of a little world, command thyself.

It is the awareness of right and wrong, along with the development of language, awareness of self, and the ability to imagine the future, to which scientists generally refer when trying to enumerate the special qualities of Homo sapiens

Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.

se te olvide, mi hijito, que mientras más importante te sientas en la vida, más pendejo serás…

Yo le diría: escucha a tus voces internas y respétalas antes de que te conviertas en un don nadie con éxito».

no me atrevo a mirarme en los espejos, por si es verdad que no tengo oreja, y me peino el pelo para ese lado, por ocultar lo que no sé si no existe." Fragmento de: Francisco Umbral. "La belleza convulsa". iBooks.

The definitions of ourselves, of others and of everything that surrounds us prevent us from being and understanding who we are, keeping us prisoners of a separate reality based on definitions. We define ourselves and others incessantly with words, judgments, labels based on appearance, age, sex, race, culture, income, intelligence, character, etc. Who are you and who are others beyond their definitions? Please do not answer!

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.

To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.

Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

Understand that when the beast within you succeeds again in paralyzing into unending incompletion whatever you again had the temerity to try to make its triumph is made sweeter by confirmation of its rectitude. It knows that it alone knows you.

What takes place in me stays there.

Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.

Thin people, God bless them, God curse them, don't get it: If you're not thin, you need to be careful and conscious about when and how you suitors initially see you.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

always regretted that good memory often prevents us from thinking for ourselves.

People are mysterious, even to themselves.

Tom said people should repaint their houses in and out, especially in, at least once a year—because who wants to live with the memories of themselves?

Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change.