Quotes About Self-awareness

Estaba loca. Era una mujer de veinte años y había actuado como una niña de doce. <>

En el fondo, todos juzgamos a los demás según nuestro propio corazón. El avaro cree que a todo el mundo lo mueve el interés; el lujurioso, el deseo, y así sucesivamente.

No one else can choose your attitude for you. Your perspective and choice of attitude gives you the power to be in control.

It was her birthday. She thought, I am always unhappy on this day.

I don't think I can marry, I'm not fit for it, I'm not real enough. That's the trouble. I'm a puppet that's realised what's wrong with itself and it's horrible . I'm propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I'm propped up crying in a corner.

The chief requirement of the good life', said Michael, 'is that one should have some conception of one's capacities. One must know oneself sufficiently to know what is the next thing. One must study carefully how best to use such strength as one has. ... One must perform the lower act which one can manage and sustain: not the higher act which one bungles.

I tried deep breathing, but seemed to lose contact with myself between each breath, so that the next one was always an emergency. I began to feel faint.

Anywhere is dangerous if you carry danger with you.

How easily one is hurt. Or is it only I who am so stupidly vulnerable.

When I'm up to something I find it very hard to realize that I probably look no different from the way I look on other occasions.

Yet she knew too that she was deeply discontented and she sometimes suffered fierce feral moods of confused yearning during which it seemed to her that her whole life was a masquerade and that she was piously acting the part of a kindly affectionate serviceable woman who was just not herself.

I've somehow run myself into hell. There must be many entrances.

You mustn't mind so much. It's all in your head. Well, I live in my head.

The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction.

We may love our chains and our stripes too.

I shook myself out of these dreams. There were places where my thoughts must not go; and as I then reflected how few places were left where they could now go without incurring pain or guilt I decided that I needed some more whisky.

Sometimes I think he will become quite desperate — with the pain of simply being himself — he might do anything.

Brooding about the past is so often fantasy of how one might have won and resentment that one didn't. It is that resentment which one so often mistakes for repentance

We ignore what we are doing until it is too late to alter it. We never allow ourselves quite to focus upon moments of decision; and these are often in fact hard to find even if we are searching for them.

To describe one's character is difficult and not necessarily illuminating. The story which follows will reveal, whether I will or no, what sort of person I am.

A human being hardly ever thinks about other people.

Clement, usually a fluent speaker in any situation, could hear his voice assuming a pompous and affected tone, not unlike that which many actors use (wrongly in Clement's view) when playing Polonius.

Everyone seemed to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed except me.

He felt obscurely the dividedness of his being, the extent of what was gross, the littleness and value of what was not.