Quotes About Self-awareness

Si dejas que se den cuenta de que sus palabras te hacen daño, jamás te librarás de las burlas.

Let me give you some counsel, bastard. Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strenght. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

That's what they always ended up saying: "But I'm just sad." Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. Really. I'm not a licensed therapist but usually it means too much time.

That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride.

Nigdy nie zapominaj o tym, kim jeste?, bo ?wiat na pewno o tym nie zapomni. Uczy? z tego swoj? si??, a wtedy przestanie to by? twoj? s?abym punktem. Zrób z tego swoj? zbroj?, a nikt nie u?yje tego przeciwko tobie.

Let me give you some counsel, bastard," Lannister said. "Never forget what you are , for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

I don't know you. I can't know you. You don't even know yourself, see? And me, do you know me? No. Even less. You know what I tell you, and I tell you the truth, but maybe not all. And you read my feelings, my surface feelings—the pain of a stubbed toe, a quick flash of annoyance, the pleasure I get when you're in me. Does that mean you know me? What of my levels, and levels? What about the things I don't even know myself? Do you know them? How, Robb, how?

Si alguien se dibuja una diana en el pecho tiene que ser consciente de que tarde o temprano le van a lanzar flechas. Tyrion Lannister

If I had me a nice goose quill and a pot o' maester's ink, I could write down that me member was long and thick as me arm, wouldn't make it so.

I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

Some skins you never want to wear, boy. You won't like what you'd become.

A todos nos hace falta que se burlen de nosotros de cuando en cuando, lord Mormont. De lo contrario, empezamos a tomarnos demasiado en serio. Tyrion Lannister

Gods forbid they glimpse me near the high seat of the Arryns, they might think that I mean to sit in it. Cheeks born so low as mine must never aspire to such lofty cushions.

That's right," agreed his pal. "You know, sometimes I forget who we are." "Well, I don't. I know I'm a darky and I'm always on the alert.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

Consciousness is a born hermit.

The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life.

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

I recognize that I may be wrong. This makes me insecure. My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors. I do this on two levels. On the abstract level, I have turned the belief in my own fallibility into the cornerstone of an elaborate philosophy.

To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride. Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

In addition to going against the herd, you've said one of your techniques is to set yourself outside the process. What do you mean exactly? How do you get outside? I am outside. I am a thinking participant and thinking means putting yourself outside the subject you think about. Perhaps it comes easier to me than to many others because I have a very abstract mind and I actually enjoy looking at things, including myself, from the outside.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.