Quotes About Self-awareness

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

I am a single, useless snail-loathing datum.

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

Persuasion lives not in him who does not live from his own self, who is son and father, slave and master of what lies around him, of what came before, of what must come after—a thing among things. Persuaded is he who has his life within himself, a soul naked amongst the islands of the blessed (Gorgias). But men look for 'life,' and lose 'life' (St. Matthew).

Io lo so che parlo perché parlo," (I know I am talking because I'm talking.)

When we seek a sure foundation on which to base decisions about our actions and thoughts, we find that a sure foundation does not exist. We do not even know whether we actually need such a foundation. We continue to make use of vague, uncertain ideas, precisely in those areas that most deeply concern us. What we call "irrational" is the code name for what we don't understand well about ourselves given the limits of our own intelligence.

We are for ourselves in large measure what we see and have seen of ourselves reflected back to us by our friends, our loves, and our enemies.

To understand ourselves means to reflect on time. But to understand time we need to reflect on ourselves.

Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I. Don Juan Matus

Fácil é julgar pessoas que estão sendo expostas pelas circunstâncias. Difícil é encontrar e refletir sobre seus erros, ou tentar fazer diferente algo que já fez muito errado. E é assim que perdemos pessoas especiais

Eis que assisto a meu desmonte palmo a palmo e não me aflijo de me tornar planície

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Maybe I'm drunk right now, even though I don't remember drinking anything. When I'm drunk, I say things without thinking. Drinking numbs you from your ability to reason. It makes you forget your own character and become a crazy. Maybe I am a crazy now; I'm going through so much chaos these days that reality is hard to grasp.

We were enough with ourselves and our enormous little lives.

Do not wait until your body is flooded with stress hormones before you practice mindfulness. By then, it is often too late! Instead, practice being mindful when things are going smoothly and during the early stages of stress.

Mommy do princesses seem at all like me? "look inside yourself and you'll see.

Me parecía que de nada vale correr si siempre ha de irse por el mismo camino, cerrado, de nuestra personalidad. Unos seres nacen para vivir, otros para trabajar, otros para mirar la vida. Yo tenía un pequeño y ruin papel de espectadora. Imposible salirme de él. Imposible libertarme.

Stay in your lane. Hold the space. Be true to your authentic self—the best representation of yourself that you can possibly be.

Arrogance covers up insecurities.

Humility is a difficult lesson.

within himself, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7).