Quotes About Self-awareness

Anzu [to Atem]: Even if you are two hearts in the same body...It's your own heart you'll face! So stay honest to your heart!

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Do what you have to do, I guess. But sooner or later you're going to run out of mirrors to shoot at. Then what will you do?

Your assumptions are your worst enemies. Trust them too much, and you'll fail to see what's right under your nose.

It was his knowledge of his own willful stupidity that had brought on his irritation

Setelah sekian lama membaca surat permintaan konsultasi, ada satu hal yang kupahami. Dalam berbagai kasus, sebenarnya si pengirim surat sudah menemukan jawabannya. Mereka berkonsultasi hanya demi memastikan bahwa orang lain juga membenarkan keputusan mereka.

He started to feel for himself, which is the only way to start feeling for others. (24)

Knowledge of places is closely linked to knowledge of the self, to grasping one's position in the larger scheme of things, including one's own community, and to securing a confident sense of who one is a person.

I don't really know exactly what I want to be, but I know what I don't want to be.

The trick is to recognize the flaw in yourself and work to correct it.

The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I don't know'. The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

No, there wasn't a lot of fun for a while with Anita in the middle '70s. She became unbearable. She was a real bitch to me, a bitch to Marlon, she was a bitch to herself. And she knows it, and I'm writing it here in this book.

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

I have never put the make on a girl in my life. I just don't know how to do it. My instincts are always to leave it to the woman. Which is kind of weird, but I can't pull the come-on bit: "Hey, baby, how you doing? Come on, let's get it on" and all of that.

The Curse works like this: Memory arrives in lockstep with sentience, with self-awareness. It arrives all at once, boom . A detonation. I'm a newborn handed this sudden bomb-blast of identity, this explosive memory of all previous lives lived all at once. Even as synapses struggle to form, neurons connecting with muscle cells.

It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.

If you want to know the one thing that will allow you to grow faster than anything else, it is the belief that you may be wrong about absolutely everything you believe. When you can question your beliefs at every possible turn, your opportunities for growth expand exponentially.

Caro needed to be important. It was boring and typical and transparent as hell, even to her, but she couldn't turn it off any more than she could quit having arms.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.

If someone doesn't care about himself, you begin to lose interest after a while.

A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.