Quotes About Self-awareness

Even though laughter is still the sign of force, of the breaking out of blind and obdurate nature, it also contains the opposite element - the fact that through laughter blind nature becomes aware of itself as it is, and thereby surrenders itself to the power of destruction.

The un-naïve thinker knows how far he remains from the object of his thinking, and yet he must always talk as if he had it entirely. This brings him to the point of clowning. He must not deny his clownish traits, least of all since they alone can give him hope for what is denied him.

You can't feel yourself blushing. That's lady novelist talk.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us…it is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.

all the while I was thinking that I was the only man who did not know what I was about, and that all the others did—whereas, as I found out later, pretty much everybody else was as much in the dark as I was.

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?" "It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?

The only thumbnail you'll get from me is this: no one knows what's really wrong with you but you; no one can find a cure for it but you; no one but you can identify it as a cure; and once you find it, no one but you can do anything about it.

Timothy, are you still black?

If the first thing you do when you wake up is reach for your phone, the signal you are sending your brain is that the needs of others –the messages on your phone –are more important than your own needs.

I may be a slut, but I'm a slut who is growing a conscience.

Made sure you saw my feet of clay.

Time didn't heal all wounds. I think time tricked people into thinking they were okay.

Gain insight into who you are and what you do

My actions are my only true belongings.

A man who evades his own conscience is a dupe.

Human being is the only creature that is stupid enough to feel as intelligent and intelligent enough to understand its stupidity!

The blamers resist change because they do not need to change, at least from their perspective. The problems all reside with other people and other situations. They don't see anything wrong with themselves. Blamers will blame. Blamers do not want to change.

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time

I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead.

You do it to yourself

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

The deepest and most profitable lesson is this,the true knowlege and contempt of ourselves.