Quotes About Self-awareness

La vida la hemos olvidado. Para nosotros no existen ya más horizonte que los que hemos preferido elegir, lo cual viene a ser una ventaja, sin duda alguna. El mundo empieza y acaba a cuatro metros de nosotros mismos, alrededor de nuestra cama, y las gentes que gozan de los placeres de la existencia, los hombres y las mujeres que ríen y bailan desafortunadamente, que se aman y se besan sin tiento y sin medida, no son nuestros hermanos.

You have to know things like: don't spend the whole time talking about yourself. I used to have a problem with this because silence makes me nervous and I fill it with whatever is in my head...

I DON'T THINK I'LL EVER TRY TO DATE. I DON'T SEE THE POINT." "Well, I'm trying it," he said, and then laughed a little. But this obviously wasn't funny. She hadn't expected this. "YOU'RE DATING SOMEONE?" "A little," he said, and drew a deep breath. "And there isn't really much of a point. What I've learned is that I have certain qualities that are annoying to other people.

He had no idea how wonderful he was. How his hands were so beautiful she could hardly look at them. How his truest smile was crooked and lifted higher on the left side than the right, which made her feel like he might understand her better, her hemiplegic face that was all crooked half smiles, too. But it couldn't be denied. He was also slightly crazy. Maybe more than slightly.

The trick is,' she said, 'to match your abilities to your stupidities. It's important for boys.

don't we all choose to live in the dump in certain aspects of our lives?

I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I drink so much that I can barely walk...I'm a fantastic lover though, and an amazing friend. God knows I mean well.

I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.

What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?

I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.

If we make choices unconsciously, moved by a reaction to outer circumstances or driven by our own random and chaotic thoughts, we have habituated ourselves to being constrained in a mental prison created by our own lack of understanding.

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. Jesus, Gospel of Thomas

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

And it's not that Pearl Jam was any more amazing than anyone else. I think we just liked who we were when they were who they were.

I tend to think the good outweighs the bad. Then again, I try to be a glass-half-full person. Although I stand by my theory that if you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid in your glass, you are either a cliche or an alcoholic.

It wasn't until later, when I was lying in bed, alone with my thoughts,that I felt uneasy feeling return. This is why you should never be alone with your thoughts, I thought. You thoughts are shitty company. They eat all the pizza and don't help clean up and they make you get all freaked out about the future.

I'm not sure I agree with everything he says; but then I'm not sure I agree with everything I say.

The danger of academic life, thought Wittgenstein, is that we are encouraged to go on talking even when we know in our hearts that we have nothing valuable to say.

Projections change the world into the replica of one's own unknown face.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved -- what then?