Quotes About Self-awareness

Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself.

La creatividad significa saber quiénes somos. Es jazz sin música, es un flujo de energía. Ser creativos es ser valientes

So it is best for you to withdraw into the world of your portents, for there at least you can decide yourself how portentous they are.

Não pertenço àquela laia de maus escritores que dizem escrever apenas para si mesmos. As únicas coisas que os autores escrevem para si próprios são listas de compras, que os ajudam a lembrar-se do que precisam adquirir, e podem ser descartadas. Tudo o mais, incluindo o rol de roupas para lavar, são mensagens endereçadas a outrem. Não são monólogos, mas diálogos.

A fool is one who always talks outside his glass.

Porque el ser humano, para saber quién es, necesita la mirada del otro, y cuanto más le ama y le admira el otro, más se reconoce (o cree reconocerse); y si en vez de un solo otro son cien o mil, o diez mil, mucho mejor, se siente completamente realizado.

çünkü aynalar?n öyle bir büyüsü vard?r ki, ayna olduklar?n? bilseniz bile sizi ürkütürler.

Kendi kafanla düÅŸünmeyi öÄŸrenmelisin.

Svestan da ne verujem, ose?ao sam krivicu što svi oko mene veruju. Pošto sam ose?ao da su u pravu, odlu?io sam da i sam po?nem da verujem, i to onako kako se pije aspirin. Ne škodi, a bude nam bolje.

Ya siz?' dedim çocukça bir küstahl?kla. 'Hiç yanl?? yapmaz m?s?n?z?' 'S?k s?k,' diye yan?tlad?. 'Ama yaln?zca bir yanl??tansa, birçok yanl?? tasarl?yorum, böylece de hiçbir yanl???n tutsa?? olmuyorum.

Porque el ser humano, para saber quién es, necesita la mirada del otro, y cuanto más le ama y le admira el otro, más se reconoce (o cree reconocerse);

El secreto de mi éxito es que de joven descubrí que no era Dios».

Es muy importante entender que no se es Dios, dudar siempre de los propios actos, y considerar que no se han empleado bastante bien los años vividos. Es la única forma para intentar emplear mejor los que quedan.

Dieve--but I'm glad I'm not a hog.

The risk her stories posed to others—and to herself—was more subtle. When she was younger, she had used secrets as if they were currency, but she'd found out how secrets could use her instead by becoming stronger than she. It happened whenever she couldn't stay away from a secret—drawn to it the way Georg Weiler was drawn to the bottle—though she sensed it would be better for her not to know.

In everyone there is some willingness to merge with the anonymous crowd and to flow comfortably along with it down the river of pseudo-life. This is much more than a simple conflict between two identities. It is something far worse: it is a challenge to the very notion of identity itself.

The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.

Me black and beautiful' was the first thing she taught me. Then she pointed to the policeman with the gun outside and taught me: 'He pig.

If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie. Those of us who had been in that part of Africa before the Europeans had never lied about ourselves. Not because we were moral. We didn't lie because we never assessed ourselves and didn't think there was anything for us to lie about; we were people who simply did what we did.

Though no one recognized his strength, Anand was among the strong. His satirical sense kept him aloof. At first this was only a pose, and imitation of his father. But satire led to contempt, and at Shorthills contempt, quick, deep, inclusive, became part of his nature. It led to inadequacies, to self-awareness and a lasting loneliness. But it made him unassailable.

Because they could assess themselves, the Europeans were better equipped to cope with changes than we were.

We feel of the great world that it is simply there, something for the lucky ones among us to explore, and then only at the edges. It never occurs to us that we might make some contribution to it ourselves. And that is why we miss everything. When we land at a place like London airport we are concerned only not to appear foolish. It is more beautiful and more complex than anything we could have dreamed of, but we are concerned only to let people see that we can manage and are not overawed.

We violate no body so much as our own: towards it we display the perversity of the cat that constantly rips its wounds open.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.