Quotes About Self-awareness

Không có ni?m h?nh phúc nào lá»›n hÆ¡n khi m?t ??i m?t vá»›i chính sá»± t?i tàn và kh?n kh? c?a mình

la palabra sentimentalisch para describir el estado de ánimo que se ha apartado de la simplicidad y el poder de la naturaleza y ha quedado demasiado atrapado en sus propias emociones y pensamientos.

And if I happen to tell a lie or two from time to time, it is so you do not come to any false conclusions about me.

De la misma forma que uno puede ver su aspecto mirándose en un espejo, observando sus pensamientos puede contemplar su esencia.

I thought: I am most completely myself when nobody's watching. I had only just begun to discover this truth. When there is no one to observe us, the other self we keep hidden inside can come out and do as it pleases. But when you have a father near enough to keep an eye on you, that second self remains buried within.

Self-respect is the early form in which greatness appears. You may deceive all the people some of the time, said Lincoln, some of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time. We cannot deceive ourselves any of the time, and the only way to enjoy our own respect is to deserve it. What would you think of a man who would neglect himself and treat his shadow with the greatest respect?

We have acquired the habit of not being equal to ourselves.

The world is a looking-glass which flings back to us the reflection of ourselves. If we laugh it laughs back at us. If we shed tears, it reflects a sorrowful face.

If someone offered to purchase a large percentage of your life power you would not think of selling it, even for a fabulous sum.

Shakespeare says: God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.

I'm crazy, said Ender. But I think I'm OK.

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.

Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad.

If one has to say, in an argument, I am intelligent! I do know things! then one might as well stop arguing.

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.

You can deny any sacrifice by claiming that it made the sufferer feel so good to do it that it really wasn't a sacrifice at all, but just another selfish act.

Peter had even named it once, when he said that he could always see what other people hated most about themselves, and bully them, while Val could always see what other people liked best about themselves, and flatter them.

We are who we are. When changes come, we start with what we are right then, and then we work to try to become whoever we need to be.

Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad.

I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are and go ahead and LEAD. -Petra