Quotes About Self-awareness

The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us.. the worst part is we can't say who is who

Life is tough when you are always talking to people smarter than you.

The idea of preventive medicine is faintly un-American. It means, first, recognizing that the enemy is us.

Com o tempo aprendi que o ciúme é um sentimento para proclamar de peito aberto, no instante mesmo de sua origem. Porque ao nascer, ele é realmente um sentimento cortês, deve ser logo oferecido à mulher como uma rosa. Senão, no instante seguinte ele se fecha em repolho, e dentro dele todo o mal fermenta. O ciúme é então a espécie mais introvertida das invejas, e mordendo-se todo, põe nos outros a culpa de sua feiura

Why doesn't th' feller who sayz 'I'm no speechmaker,' let it go at that instead o' givin' a demonstration?

Live so to get the approbation of your Other Self, and success if yours. But pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

...inwardly, we're much older than other girls our age. Even though I'm only fourteen... I feel I'm more of a person than a child...

Most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior... Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. There is no mystery about disease, nor crime, nor war, nor the thousand and one things which plague us. Live simply and wisely.

It's your body. Tell it what to do.

Why do we alienate ourselves so much from our bodies? It's that big piece of machinery attached to your head.

Some folks wear their halos much too tight.

Wink at wee faults, your ain are meikle.

Every man is a damn fool at least ten minutes a day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

...the driver who cannot command his own faculties is a social menace of the first order.

If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Scorpios are more conscious of the war in their own natures than are most people. Perhaps they are ashamed of their intense feelings and it is for this reason that they tend to be secretive...

The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive.

I think I have a mental nappy attitude.

I had an attitude problem when I was a kid. I'm not gonna lie.

All sorts of reflections of this nature passed through my mind—for as I grow older I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me...

Thus we, as individuals, can become the victims of our own poisonous thoughts, but we cannot become the victims of the poisonous thoughts of another.