Quotes About Self-awareness

I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a lacerating duality. I'm seemingly free, but I'm a prisoner inside of me.

If you begin to feel that the likeness you have sketched out for yourself is not right—that this is not the person you want to become—then you must revisit your likeness. But if it becomes clear that it is the person you want to become, then you must devote your life to becoming that person.

Kendi yaÅŸam?n?zdaki çözülmemiÅŸ görevleri anlamak inovasyon için verimli bir zemin oluÅŸturacakt?r.

There comes an age in life when you realize that blaming and regretting are a waste of precious time.

One way to ruin your life is to have dreams bigger than your abilities.

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

We are all our own graveyards I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were.

Yes, he knew his face was finely made, his forehead broad, his gaze haunting, his lips sculpted so that even a sneer looked fetching on them, but he needed a living mirror to tell him so.

Somos nuestros propios cementerios; nos instalamos entre las tumbas de las personas que éramos.

If you were alone on earth, what would you know? What the mirror told you, that's all. The rest would be myth and conjecture.

look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you...

Women need to do more. We need to find out what it is we're afraid of, and go beyond.

Look at your failed life, Joffrey: It is standing right in front of you

The mentally healthy individual", writes Wilson. "is he who habitually calls upon fairly deep levels of vital reserves. An individual whose mind is allowed to become dormant – so that only the surface is disturbed – begins to suffer from 'circulation problems'. Neurosis is the feeling of being cut off from your own powers.

In his embryonic form, as the Outsider, he does not know himself well enough to understand the driving force behind his feelings. That is why his chief concern is with thinking, not with doing.

At a certain point he learned the smarter play was to avoid the things that brought you low.

Part of moving up in the world is realizing how much shit you used to eat.

You have to have an inside you, she used to say, and an outside you. Ain't nobody's business who you are really, so it's up to you what you gave them.

She has always considered herself an atheist, not realizing she had a religion.

Sucker. The mistake was to believe he'd become someone else. That the circumstances that shaped him had been otherwise, or that to outrun those circumstances was as easy as moving to a better building or learning to speak right. Hard stop on the t. He knew where he stood now, had always known, even if he'd gotten confused; there was the matter of redress.

In the dank utility room deep in the subbasements of my personality, a little man wiped his hands on his overalls and pulled the switch: More.

or at least recognizing that he carried himself differently than other colored boys his age and taking this for industry.

A piece of art really works when you see yourself in the main characters and you see a glimpse of yourself in the villains

Judge not the dysfunctions of others, let ye be judged.