Quotes About Self-awareness

Considering how very handsome she is, she appears to be little occupied with it; her vanity lies another way.

the art of knowing our own nothingness beyond our own circle

Pese a esta experiencia creía que iba a tener que pasar por una nueva y necesaria lección en el arte de aprender lo poca cosa que somos fuera de nuestro propio círculo.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be

Poseo bastantes defectos, pero creo que no proceden de mi entendimiento.

The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself;

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured.

e eu seria a primeira a fechar os olhos a seu orgulho, se ele não tivesse ferido o meu.

Emma - faultless, in spite of her faults

Mas o orgulho, onde quer que haja uma verdadeira superioridade intelectual, o orgulho estará sempre sob uma boa orientação.

Oh! how heartily did she grieve over every ungracious sensation she had ever encouraged, every saucy speech she had ever directed towards him. For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him.

Pentru firea mea, nu pun mana in foc. Este, cred, prea putin ingaduitoare; sigur, prea putin, pentru a conveni celorlalti. Nu pot uita prostiile si pacatele oamenilor atat de repede pe cat ar trebui, si nici ofensele pe care mi le aduc. Nu ma las impresionat de orice incercare ce s-ar face de a ma emotiona. Caracterul meu ar putea fi numit ranchiunos. Buna mea parere o data pierduta, este pierduta pentru vecie.

Nada es más engañoso que la apariencia de humildad. Normalmente no es otra cosa que falta de opinión, y a veces es una forma indirecta de vanagloriarse

Por una persona en concreto no debes trastocar el significado de principio y de integridad, ni intentar convencerte a ti misma o a mí, de que el egoísmo es prudencia o de que la insensibilidad ante el peligro es un seguro de felicidad

Pride, observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, is a very common failing

The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself;

one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half, or always suspecting the other of being worse than it was.

There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself.

I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.

She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived

As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit.

own disposition; and after having

I deserve neither such praise nor such censure," cried Elizabeth; "I am not a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things.

Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them: and though this was not particularly agreeable to Emma herself, she knew it would be so much less so to her father, that she would not have him really suspect such a circumstance as her not being thought perfect by every body.