Quotes About Self-awareness

Curiosity is my greatest curse, but simple ackowledgement of a flaw does not correct it.

Ciekawo?? jest moim najwi?kszym przekle?stwem, ale ?wiadomo?? posiadania wady jeszcze jej nie usuwa.

Even worse, introspection – for him at least – was a funnel in sand, a spider waiting at the bottom. And Coll well knew he was quite capable of devouring himself.

I've been the walking dead all along, and I didn't even know it. The thought left him weakened, as if some hidden knife had just pushed deep inside, piercing his soul. I've been telling myself this was being alive. This here. This…hiding. Wishing. Dreaming. Wanting. And all the while, what does anyone else see when they look at me?

We were never what people could be. We were only what we were. Remember us

When selfishness becomes a pathology, there will be many innocent victims.

A truly successful leader is a reluctant leader. Not one whose every word is greeted with frenzied cheering either—after all, what happens to the mind of such a leader, after such scenes are repeated again and again? A growing certainty, a belief in one's own infallibility, and onward goes the march into disaster.

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms.

Everyone saw her as such a capable person, and all the while she asked herself: capable of what? Will I ever find out? When is it my turn?

It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms.

If she was a friend, you will miss her company, and that is the true source of your grief—your sorrow is for yourself.

Do we all possess a wish to remain unseen, unnoticed? Is the witnessing of our actions by others our greatest restraint?

To see a dead body was to recoil, mind spinning a dust-devil of thoughts - that is not me - see the difference between us? That is not me, that is not me. No one I know, no one I have ever known. That is not me . . . but . . . it could be. So easily it could be.

When One judges another, they unconsciously allow themselves to be judged.

The more nearly a man knows himself for what he is, the nearer he approaches wisdom. The more his imagination about himself diverges from what he actually is, the madder he becomes. –Rodney Collin

All you have to do is move around and meet new people to realize how dumb you really are.

It embraces Emotional Self-Awareness—the ability to recognize how you're feeling and why you're feeling that way, and the impact your emotions have on the thoughts and actions of yourself and others; Self

There are many times when second thoughts become chains on your soul.

Over the years, I've found that anger is necessary, but it must reach an equilibrium: You need just enough but never too much. If you don't let it in, you become hollow; but if you let it take over, you become its slave.

We're desperate to be truly known by others; yet we go to incredible lengths to hide who we really are. We say we want truth, then rationalize it away when it gets too personal.

I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.

To gain an understanding of the mind leads on to an appreciation of what it means to be human.

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.