Quotes About Self-awareness

Hiçbir ÅŸey alçakgönüllü bir görünümden daha yan?lt?c? deÄŸildir. S?k s?k sadece düÅŸünce dikkatsizliÄŸi, bazen de dolayl? bir övünmedir.

Like James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Woolf 's first novel is a self-conscious meditation on the formation of an emergent intellectual and artist (a Ku¨nstlerroman).

Peace starts within. (Jane Goodall).

I'm just scared that you've fallen for the way he's treating you rather than for the man himself.

Cat likes to think of herself as a nice person.

the other's self, that enormous hulking thing each possessed, that a self of course is not inconsequential. p124

It is only the ego that steps from moment to moment, as a man who walks from puddle to puddle. It is only the ego who drowns in time.

You cannot learn about yourself by studying what is expected of you by others — but only by asking yourself what you expect of yourself, and discovering for yourself in what direction your abilities lie. End

When you do not know what to do, relax and tell yourself that other portions of yourself do know; they will take over. Give yourself some rest. Remind yourself that in many ways you are a very successful person as you are. Success does not necessarily involve great intellect or great position or great wealth; it has to do with inner integrity. Remember that.

I communicate with your dimension, for example, not by willing myself to your level of reality, but by imagining myself there. All of my deaths would have been adventures had I realized what I know now. On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough.

If you are ill, remember when you were not. Search your life for proofs of your health.

You must face yourself now. You cannot afford to play overlong—to hide yourself in trivia—to become so busy that you cannot hear the truth that shouts within you. I know what the transition is like and I tell you it is pleasant—but your responsibilities will still exist, and you will ask yourself how you have fulfilled them. You must know yourself if you would help others. You must look inward and listen.

If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others, and you will find your answer.

consider merely that all types of awareness are trance states... consciousness is the direction in which the self looks.

I'm not strange to myself, but I realize that I contrast with others fairly sharply.

And then he saw what he was, an old man, ready to die, pressed against the Greenland earth, as small as an ash berry on the face of a mountain, and he did the only thing that men can do when they know themselves, which was to weep and weep and weep.

We watched the swimmers and sunbathers and I thought about this. Had I faced all the facts? It seemed like I had, but actually, you never know, just by remembering, how many facts you were allowed to have faced. Your own endurance might be a pleasant fiction allowed you by others who've really faced the facts. The eerie feeling this thought gave me made me shiver in the hot wind.

Snow Speaks to the Mirror My nose is smudged, my hair in tangles. I do not like myself at angles. Skin's not clear, eyes all red. Another hour in my bed would be a gift, would feel real nice. But can I trust your strange advice? Don't be daft. I won't be guided by a glass that's so one-sided.

My eyes rolled so far back in my head that I could see myself think

I went to the door, and Gary tried hard not to notice I was blue. He looked at his feet, and he looked above my head, and he cleared his throat. It's okay,' I said. 'I know I'm blue.' It caught me by surprise,' he said. 'I didn't want to seem rude.

Maybe it was me, Grandma said.Sometimes they sneak out.Did I fart?

I rolled my eyes so far into the back of my head I saw myself thinking.

I rolled my eyes so far into the back of my head I saw myself Thinking"- Stephanie Plum High Five

It's my style. And don't call me Cookie." Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me. At least I rarely made the same mistake twice …