Quotes About Self-awareness

It is very important to understand why those annoying people annoy you and then figure out where that fits into your world.

It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.

We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!

An emotionally abusive relationship, in very simplistic terms, is much like standing up in a too hot bath and sinking back in so as not to feel so dizzy.

Once you got hard on yourself, it was easy to be hard on others.

As soon as they leave, Leon says to me: I disagree, sir. There are people who aren't insane, and I'm one of them. People who generalize are mentally ill.

But life was too full for me to dwell on anything for very long. When I was seven I became self-conscious of the fact that I was a "very busy person." I always had somewhere to go, something to do, someone to see.

i wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself..

Sl?biciunea noastr?, a modernilor, e c? în loc s? gândim, gândurile ne gândesc pe noi. Noi st?m molâi, femei adipoase, lubrice, nesatisf?cute, È™i gândurile ne violenteaz?, ne schingiuiesc, ne vând altora, iar noi nu protest?m, ci le l?s?m s? ne st?pâneasc?, s? ne îndrepte paÈ™ii, s? ne prostitueze oric?rui adev?r care le satisface pe ele, nu pe noi.

Te trezeÅŸti c? ai devenit ceva, aproape f?r? s?-Å£i mai aminteÅŸti începuturile acestei transform?ri.

Tr?ie?te el, ca om, ca fiin?? total? - ?i nu se las? tr?it de ?esuturile lui, de glandele lui, de automatismele lui, ca noi to?i, ce?tilal?i...

It's possible that my insecurity is the very quality that connects me to everyone else. I don't hide my vulnerability. I don't know how.

I have a silly habit of making knee-jerk and somewhat dogmatic statements which are rapidly proved wrong.

And what have you been up to? she asked. Oh, I don't know really, I said. Not much. Learning how to be a good loser.

The guy's name was Colt. Colt, said Thebes. Like a baby, male horse? I guess, said the guy, or a gun. Well, which do you prefer? she said. What do you mean? he asked. Like, how do you prefer to think of yourself? As a baby, male horse? No, he said, he didn't really like to think of himself that way. Well, then, as a gun? she said. No, not really, he said. He preferred basically not to think of himself at all.

She lived in her head and that's why it glowed.

I went back to my medical information. I learned that my body would think it was pregnant [on the pill]. There would now be yet another part of myself that would not know what was really going on.

Nos sentiremos angustiadas y apenadas, y sentiremos incertidumbre, y tristeza, pero no culpabilidad, dice Agata. Mariche corrige: Puede que nos sintamos culpables, pero sabremos que no lo somos Podríamos tener sentimientos homicidas, pero sabremos que no somos asesinas. Podríamos sentir sed de venganza, pero sabremos que no somos mapaches. Podríamos sentirnos perdidas, pero sabremos que no somos unas perdidas.

I feel that so many problems in my life may have been prevented had I been more contained.

We will feel anguish and we will feel sorrow and we will feel uncertainty and we will feel sadness, but not guilt, says Agata. Mariche amends: We may feel guilty but we will know we are not guilty.

When we know something we stop thinking about it, don't we?

When we have liberated ourselves, we will have to ask ourselves who we are.

I thought to myself that there really were so many simple ways we could make ourselves look less like idiots.

No?u, u intimnom, poluglasnom razgovoru sa samim sobom, nikako ne mogu zapravo logi?ki opravdati zašto se u posljednje vrijeme toliko uzrujavam zbog ljudske gluposti.