Quotes About Self-awareness

got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.

If you have to say you're not doing something, then you probably are.

Kdo se dosud z vlastního popudu neprosvÄ›cuje a nechápe svou vinu, bude mít sklon obžalovávat žalobce

Personality begins where comparison ends.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is indeed man's self-consciousness and self-awareness as long as he has not found his feet in the universe.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist

What is certain is that I myself am not a Marxist

It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.

Normally you can't hear your own voice cos you're talking over it

The best thing about me is probably my eyes, but then I suppose my eyes would think that, as it's them that are looking at them.

If you're worrying about the colour of your anus, things must be good, as you can't have proper worries in your life.

Gr?matas ir spogu?i: taj?s var redz?t tikai to, kas jau ir tev? paš?.

I like being in control, was all Keely said, looking at him. She could have said, I hate for anyone to know I don't know everything, that I sometimes feel so out of my depth that three lifesavers wouldn't keep me from drowning, but she didn't What's so wrong with that?

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

I'm always so glad,' Sylvie murmured, 'that I don't have to take a turn at being other people.' 'You're very good at being yourself,' Ursula said, aware that it didn't necessarily sound like a compliment. 'Well, I've had years of practice.

It was funny because she thought of herself as a good team player, although sometimes she suspected that no one else on her team did.

There were so many facts that Amelia no longer felt certain about (or perhaps she had never known them). She would soon be nearer fifty than forty, and she was sure that every day she could feel more neural pathways disappearing—fusing and arcing and dying—leaving her unable to retrieve information.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.