Quotes About Self-awareness

This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do it—your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all.

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

Me. And me now.

I am other I now.

Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

Some people, says Bloom, can see the mote in others' eyes but they can't see the beam in their own.

Puck Mulligan footed featly, trilling: I HARDLY HEAR THE PURLIEU CRY OR A TOMMY TALK AS I PASS ONE BY BEFORE MY THOUGHTS BEGIN TO RUN ON F. M'CURDY ATKINSON, THE SAME THAT HAD THE WOODEN LEG AND THAT FILIBUSTERING FILIBEG THAT NEVER DARED TO SLAKE HIS DROUTH, MAGEE THAT HAD THE CHINLESS MOUTH. BEING AFRAID TO MARRY ON EARTH THEY MASTURBATED FOR ALL THEY WERE WORTH. Jest on. Know thyself.

I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at themselves in my nicely polished looking glass.

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances.

Then, in that case, all the rest, all that I thought I thought and all that I felt I felt, all the rest before me now, in fact... O, give it up old chap! Sleep it off!

By his monstrous way of life, he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him. He could respond to no earthly or human appeal, dumb and insensible to the call of summer and gladness and companionship, wearied and dejected by his father's voice. He could scarcely recognize as his own thoughts, and repeated slowly to himself: - I am Stephen Dedalus

It is like whispering to one's self and listening at the same time.

Every drunkard has many moments of shame that live like carpet tacks in his memory

there were times when you are very alone in the world and your own thoughts flay your skin an inch at a time.

At a certain age, you realize the greatest loss you can experience is a theft you perpetrate upon yourself—the waste of days given us. Is there any more piercing remorse than the realization that a person has thrown away the potential that resides in every sunrise?

Pretty damn boring to be a spectator in your own life.

You've got a lot of anger in you, son," he said. "Don't let it turn on you. It'll flat tear you up.

I won't try to argue with your experience and what you've shaped out of it. But the world isn't a jail. We just make our own sometimes. Does that make any sense to you?

No, I'm a coonass, my religion is shaky, and I've never hit the juice.

I can't really say." "It amounts to believing others when they tell you you're a good fellow. Give that some thought.

Before you can be a leader of others, you need to know clearly who you are and what your core values are. Once you know that, then you can give your voice to those values and feel comfortable sharing them with others." Arpana

When he goes to a wedding he wants to be the bride, and when he goes to a funeral he wants to be the corpse. (Commentary about Teddy Roosevelt, who was president when he came to give away his niece to Franklin).

They find "sources of strength in the self to develop the self.

Most times I don't know what I'm doing. Sometimes I feel like I don't hardly know enough to tie my own shoes.