Quotes About Self-awareness

I am a quite unnecessarily complicated piece of mechanism

If you can only quiet the Ego, soul and body begin to function of themselves, in

I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about." Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

It's the ones who don't blame themselves who are more likely to be guilty of wrongdoing.

If I be cruel and grow tyrannous, Now let them thank themselves, and rue too late.

Last time I really got to know myself it turned out there was a whole gang of bitches in there to deal with. I felt like the receptionist at a rehab center. They all had nice tits though, I gotta say.

Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.

He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own.

This is the Marina. This is where you go between the fraternity or sorority house and your first divorce. Look around, except for our waitress, who I guarantee doesn't live in this neighborhood, it's all people who are completely self-absorbed without a shred of self-awareness." "Wow, that's harsh," Mike said. "You haven't served them," Lily said.

Nobody's perfect….

But Charlie could imagine, because he was a Beta Male, and imagination was his curse....

It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?

Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time.

do not worry about these things. find peace in where and what you are ~saphira to eragon page 429

You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.

The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.

I am not who I was, but I know who I am.

It's not the wolves out there, said Eragon, hugging himself. It's the wolves in here. He tapped the middle of his forehead

Blaming yourself is perfectly normal, but it doesn't do you any good. Until you stop, unless you can stop, you'll never be able to fully recover.

He welcomed those limitations, for if he were perfect, what would be left for him to accomplish?

Hemos de ceder a nuestros impulsos de herir o matar a cualquiera que nos moleste, de tomar cuanto queremos de quienes son más débiles y, en general, de despreciar los sentimientos de los demás? Somos imperfectos por nacimiento y debemos vigilar nuestros defectos para que no nos destruyan.

Books are mirrors, You only see in them what you already have inside you -Christopher Paolini

Nunca peques de exceso de confianza, Eragon. Nunca te vuelvas arrogante, porque en ese momento te descuidarás y tus enemigos se aprovecharán de tu debilidad.

La falsa modestia no es una virtud, en ningún caso, y mucho menos en los que tienen a otros a su cargo. Nasuada