Quotes About Self-awareness

But sometimes you get a career and then you suddenly realize you don't have a life. Or if you stay at home with your family, you suddenly realize that your life is actually everyone else's life, not your own. Either way, when you got all your eggs in one basket, the basket gets heavy. Maybe the eggs start to break.

When, she wonders, did she stop being a child? The law says it was when she turned eighteen, but the law doesn't know her.

Have we ever had an enemy worse than ourselves?

The best we can hope for is to be humble in our arrogance.

Ghost implies a whole lot of things that I am NOT. Do I look like Casper to you? Fine, said Nick. We're not ghosts, we're Undefined Spectral Doohickies. USDs. Are you happy now?

Tyger might have thought of himself as a free spirit, but he wasn't at all. He just defined the dimensions of his own cage.

I am what you made me

Being ignored has its advantages...Dignity doesn't grow under a microscope.

I suppose even a simple slogan can be twisted into whatever shape we want, like a balloon animal—we can even make it loop back around on itself, becoming a noose. In the end, the measure of who we are can be seen in the shapes of our balloon animals.

Ain't no one gonna tell you what's in your heart, he tells Lev. You gotta find that out for yourself.

I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't

You can't get in your own head sometimes. You can pace around it, you can bang it against walls, but you can't get inside.

Man nennt es "Deindividuation". Es passiert, wenn ein Polizist eine Uniform anzieht oder man sich eine Sonnenbrille aufsetzt, damit die Leute einem nicht in die Augen blicken können. Es ist, als würde man sich aus seinem normalen Ich davonstehlen – man fühlt sich anders, verhält sich anders.

you're far from the greatest mind on Earth.

I choose to see the positive in this. How wonderful it is that I have now been allowed to experience wrath and fury! It makes me more complete, does it not?

I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?

Esa es la rabia que lo embarga cuando no hay nadie mirándolo.

I've been having lots of wrong thoughts, Lev tells Pastor Dan. There are no wrong thoughts, only thoughts that need to be worked through.

My real name is Shawn Dobson. Will you call me that, Rowan? Will you call me by my real name?

Do you know what that feels like, Risa? he wants to ask her. Do you know what it's like to be un-souled?

Never hold a weapon when angry even if that weapon was a dinner knife.

Almost all our evils arise from being unable to stay in our rooms," said another sage, Pascal. ("Yan?lm?yorsam Pascal, 'neredeyse tüm mutsuzluklar?m?z odam?zda kalmay? bilememiÅŸ olmam?zdan geliyor ba??m?za' der")

We have set our hearts so completely on becoming worldly-wise, we have overstrained our microscopes to such an extent for the purpose of examining the ghastly protuberances and shameful blemishes with which we are covered and which we joyfully cultivate, that it is not possible for us to speak the language of common men. They live to live and we, alas, we live to understand.

Un hombre espantoso entra y se mira al espejo. «¿Por qué se mira al espejo si no ha de verse en él más que con desagrado?». El hombre espantoso me contesta: «Señor mío, según los principios inmortales del ochenta y nueve, todos los hombres son iguales en derechos; así, pues, tengo derecho a mirarme; con agrado o con desagrado, ello no compete más que a mi conciencia».