Quotes About Self-awareness

One day at a time. He had also added that it's a good rule not to take anything personally. We think that everything revolves around us: both what other people do and what they don't do. It's almost never true. Things happen and that's it; most other people are uninterested in us, for good or ill.

Each of us, over the years, creates a character for ourselves. One we identify with, which corresponds to a positive idea of ourselves, which encapsulates the qualities we like to think we have. Your character, the one you've created for yourself, the one you identify with, has, among its various characteristics, one that could be described like this: He's a criminal lawyer, therefore he defends criminals, but not those who've committed heinous and disgusting crimes.

I had an image of myself and tried to live up to it. One way or another. Whenever there was a clash with reality, it was reality that had to adapt. But that's a mechanism that can't last forever. Gradually, you lose your sense of balance.

My grandfather often quoted it, and said that the rule of moral balance is the opposite of the behaviour described in that sentence. It means not lying to ourselves about the significance of, and the reasons for, what we do and what we don't do. It means not looking for justifications, not manipulating the account we make of ourselves to anyone, including ourselves.

La vergogna può essere un sentimento utile. È il segnale di qualcosa che non va e può essere uno stimolo a cambiare in meglio.»

All'inizio fui colto dall'euforia [...] Poi l'euforia svanì e lasciò il posto allo sgomento. La pillola, il suo rituale e quello che c'era intorno erano stati, in quegli anni, alibi perfetti per evitare ogni responsabilità e sentirmi anche in credito con la vita. Adesso, di punto in bianco, gli alibi non c'erano più [...] D'un tratto mi ritrovavo in mare aperto, e non ero pronto

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

It is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. There is no big man who has not felt small. Some men never feel small; but these are the few men who are.

The vain man does not think he is vain.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.

When a boy begins to notice that he is fonder of arithmetic, or less homesick, than are most of his acquaintances he is beginning to be self-conscious, in this enlarged sense.

A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.

It's humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness." —Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

At times, she feels discomfort over matters she knows nothing about, and Magsalin hears rising up in her that quaver that readers have, as if the artist should be holding her hand as she is walked through the story. But she rides the wave, she checks herself. A reader does not need to know everything

My therapist has helped me learn to understand that if you don't unpack your own emotional baggage it's no longer baggage--it's deadweight.

There was something wrong; nobody else had to tell me. Writing it down made me see it. I'd told myself, as if writing to another person.

Just because you've become tired of emotion, or outgrown it, doesn't mean it'll be simple to free yourself from it. It must be dismantled, not ignored.

you no longer expect to stop pretending someday. It has become simply a part of who you are,

Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure.

Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.

To commune with your heart and soul, be willing to go out of your mind.

Each of us knows when it's time to wake, eat and rest. We don't need to read a clock for these activities; we need to listen.