Quotes About Self-awareness

I have instructed myself, over and over, to keep my notebook handy at all times, but if you told me to describe myself in one word, it would be "not very good at following directions.

You can easily think of times when you were horrible, and when I say easily I mean it is very easy to remember these times and hard to stop remembering. They ache in the brain and the body, these shameful memories, like a broken bone that has never quite healed right.

La timidez es algo curioso, por que, al igual que las arenas movedizas, se apodera de las personas en cualquier momento y, también como las arenas movedizas, hace que sus víctimas miren hacia abajo.

knew that they weren't ugly, because they could

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me it's something I'm doing.

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.

Maybe he should start this healing journey by trying to figure out how to forgive himself? How could he expect true forgiveness from other is he didn't have the courage to look at himself in the eye and offer forgiveness to the man he'd become?

In the end you have only you.

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible… except by getting off his back.

Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one's suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering.

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I.

Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

But to be the best, to reach the pinnacle, requires self-denial, sacrifice, discipline, humility, and preparation. You have to hurt yourself, scold yourself, analyze yourself, recognize your weaknesses at the same time you try to eliminate them.