Quotes About Self-awareness

We have to watch the world, and watch ourselves, with the humility of those who know, in the very depths of their being, that learning to become human is a process that never ends.

Što manje znaš šta si ti, više se plašiš onoga što nisi ti.

Clinging to a problem does not make it disappear, but rather just makes it worse, aggravating the problem and leading to frustration and anger in relation to the problem and even in relation to ourselves.

I let my soul be corrupted that day, although it would be years later before I accepted what I had done. I forgot who I was and what I should do and only thought about what I wanted and what I could do.

and I wondered what it felt like to live inside such disloyal skin.

I was aware that she didn't belong to me. I didn't mean that, on paper at least, she was another's man's wife. If you knew her, you would know that she never belonged to him either. I'm not sure if she even realized it herself, but she's the kind of woman that will never belong to anyone.

If you need a kid to keep you together, then how together are you?

In my marriage, I never determined which of us was rootstock and which the grafted branch.

The main thing was that I didn't want to feel the way I was feeling.

Daddy said, "At some point you will come to accept your limitations." "Do you accept yours?" I asked, with challenge in my voice. "But of course, Ladybug. That's what marriage teaches you.

Nadie es esclavo, por muy atado y encadenado que esté, hasta que admite que lo es.

I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'

Keeping your emotions all locked up is something thats unfair to you. When you clearly know how you feel. You should say it.

I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairytale.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

some of the core assumptions on which your self-image is built are actually lies.

I had obviously been a much worse father fourteen years ago than I'd thought; it would be tempting to conclude I had come further to reach where I currently was, but I couldn't trust my perceptions anymore. Did Nicole even have positive feelings about me now? I wasn't going to try using Remem to answer this question; I needed to go to the source.

Because all of us have been wrong on various occasions, engaged in cruelty and hypocrisy, and we've forgotten most of those occasions. And that means we don't really know ourselves.

I don't delude myself with either self-pity or conceit: I can evaluate my own psychological state with the utmost objectivity and consistency. I know precisely which emotional resources I have and which I lack, and how much value I place on each. I have no regrets.

Porque todos nos hemos equivocado en diversas ocasiones, hemos actuado con crueldad e hipocresía, y todos hemos olvidado la mayoría de esas ocasiones. Y eso significa que en realidad no nos conocemos

What I'll think is that you are clearly, maddeningly not me. It will remind me, again, that you won't be a clone of me; you can be wonderful, a daily delight, but you won't be someone I could have created by myself. —

It is a cold and harrowing morning in the life of a man the day he wakes up, looks at himself in the mirror, and finally realizes that he is not, never has been, nor will ever be George Clooney.

That particular passion which caused me to pursue for years on end a journey that others would scarcely contemplate, that many regarded as an act of folly or arrogance, arose out of my own peculiarity. I saw that it would make me a difficult person to live with, just as I knew that without it I could hardly live with myself.

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.