Quotes About Self-awareness

One of the fundamentals of understanding love is that love comes from within oneself rather than from someone else.

I do not know where this mania for understanding oneself has come from, he said, but it clearly exerts a powerful hold on people.

Ori de câte ori m? privesc în oglind?, m? v?d simultan pe mine, dar ?i pe str?inul care sunt.

the pain is not your pain but your relationship to it.

You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.

Evey day, there is less of me. Today I am thoughts without words. Tomorrow I will be a body without thoughts. And so it goes.

In truth, she hadn't put much thought into whether she was happy before. She supposes that since she never thought about it, she must have been happy. People who are happy don't really need to ask themselves if they are happy or not, do they? They just are happy, she thinks.

That spring, Amelia takes Maya to the drugstore and lets her choose any polish color she likes. "How do you pick?" Maya says. "Sometimes I ask myself how I'm feeling," Amelia says. "Sometimes I ask myself how I'd like to be feeling.

He was no longer the boy who wanted to taste everything at the buffet, and he considered it a sign of his own maturity that he had not thought to end things with Zoe. But his disdain for his former itinerancy had made it so he could not recognize the reasons a person should stay.

Despite what I said before, it had not been a fear of infecting other people or poor health that had stopped me from going, but vanity. It was a good lesson.

They...think their traumas are the most interesting thing about them." "If their traumas are the most interesting things about them, how do they get over any of it?

she'd felt old, but that night, she realized she wasn't old at all. You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.

I don't think you can really run away from things. They tend to follow you" -Anya

Since she'd started teaching and become a mother, she'd felt old, but that night, she realized she wasn't old at all. You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.

When she was forty, would she lament that she hadn't had sex with more people and partied more? But then, she didn't enjoy many people, and she had never gone to a party that she wasn't eager to leave. She hated being drunk, though she did enjoy smoking a joint every now and then. She liked playing games, seeing a foreign movie, a good meal. She liked going to bed early and waking up early.

You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.

Sadie was twenty-two when Ichigo was launched, and she hadn't figured out who she was in public yet. (She barely knew who she was in private.)

I thought I was grown-up. I thought I knew what I was doing. These were a few of the lies I told myself.

And yet, in K-town, he felt more Korean than he ever had before. Or to put a finer point on it, he felt more aware of the fact that he was a Korean and that that was not necessarily a negative or even a neutral fact about him. The awareness gave him pause: perhaps a funny-looking mixed-race kid could exist at the center of the world, not just on its periphery.

your sense of self could change depending on your location.

Licking your wounds would only make them worse, no? The mouth was filled with so much bacteria. But Sadie knew it was easy to get addicted to the taste of your own carnage.

Wobec tego b?dziesz sam siebie s?dzi?. To najtrudniejsze. Znacznie trudniej jest s?dzi? siebie ni? bli?niego. Je?li potrafisz dobrze siebie os?dzi?, b?dziesz naprawd? m?dry.

I catch myself. It's not that bad. But I occasionally switch a word with another word.

Sometimes, though, I get tired of learning lessons.