Quotes About Self-awareness

People try to get out of themselves and to escape from the man. This is folly; instead of transforming themselves into angels, they turn into beast; instead of lifting, they degrade themselves. These transcendental humors frighten me, like lofty and inaccessible heights.

For in truth habit is a violent and treacherous schoolmistress. She establishes in us, little by little, stealthily, the foothold of her authority; but having by this mild and humble beginning settled and planted it with the help of time, she soon uncovers to us a furious and tyrannical face against which we no longer have the liberty of even raising our eyes.

If only talking to oneself did not look mad, no day would go by without my being heard growling to myself. - you silly shit!

Kendimizden kaçmam?z, kendimizde olup biteni bilmememizdendir.

Retire within yourselves; but first prepare yourselves to receive yourselves there. It would be madness to trust yourselves to yourselves if you do not know how to control yourselves. There are ways of failing in solitude as well as in company.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to yourself .

From these articles of my confession you can imagine others to my discredit. But whatever I make myself out to be, provided that I show myself as I am, I am fulfilling my purpose.

Onun için kalabal?ktan kaçmak yetmez, bir yerden baÅŸka bir yere gitmekle iÅŸ bitmez. Ä°çimizdeki kalabal?ktan kurtulmam?z, kendimizi kendimizden koparmam?z gerek, böyle anlarda.

Asl?nda insanlar seni hayal k?r?kl???na uÄŸratm?yor. Sadece sen, yanl?? insanlar üzerinde hayal kuruyorsun..

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. We seek other conditions because we do not understand the use of our own … Yet there is no use our mounting on stilts, for on stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump

I, who make no other profession, find in myself such infinite depth and variety, that what I have learned bears no other fruit than to make me realize how much I still have to learn. To my weakness, so often perceived, I owe my inclination to coolness in my opinions and any hatred for that aggressiveness and quarrelsome arrogance that believes and trusts wholly in itself, a mortal enemy of discipline and truth.

Nemo in sese tentat descendere Kimse kendi içine inmeye çal??maz Persius Bense kendi içimde yuvarlan?p gidiyorum.

I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.

It is very easy to criticize others but far more difficult to put one's own principles into practice, and it is when one forgets this truth, lauds oneself to the skies, treats everyone else as worthless, and generally despises others, that one's own character is clearly revealed.

La historia está llena de sabios que no se han conocido nunca a sí mismos

Nothing infuriates people more than their own lack of spiritual insight.

Look at your fears; hold them up to the light of reason. Learn to laugh at your fears. That is the best medicine. Nothing can disturb you but your own thought.

is never what some other person says or does that affects him. Rather, it is his own reaction to what is said or done that matters.

fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.

You can't expect everybody to think of you all the time. Nobody knows you. And you never talk to anyone!

I don't feel old. I just feel like someone young who has something wrong with him.

Sometimes a man has to be great enough to know how insignificant he is.