Quotes About Self-awareness

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.

none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. dup

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back.  It makes me far too conceited. lord

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

There is a luxury in self-reproach.

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. It is when we are wounded by our own hands that love should come to cure us—else what use is love at all?

I'm so clever, I don't understand half of the things I'm saying.

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been. Art is a symbol, because man is a symbol.

DziÅ› wiÄ™kszo?? ludzi umiera na postÄ™pujÄ…cy zdrowy rozsÄ…dek, a kiedy jest ju? zbyt pó?no na leczenie, odkrywajÄ…, ?e jedynÄ… rzeczÄ…, której siÄ™ nigdy nie ?aÅ'uje, sÄ… wÅ'asne bÅ'Ä™dy.

We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us.

Frank Harris has no feelings. It is the secret of his success. Just as the fact that he thinks that other people have none either is the secret of the failure that lies in wait for him somewhere on the way of Life.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self

It is tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man,' says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people.

Humanity takes itself too seriously.

Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious. It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

You will be separated from yourself and yet be alive.

The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.

Hol a saját (irodalmi) múltunk tudatos számbavétele? Egy nyugati könyvesboltban tényleg sírva lehet fakadni: Goethe elölrÅ'l, Goethe hátulról, férfival, kisgyerekkel, kecskével, hajnalban, Schillerrel, Thomas Mann-nal, futólag Kleisttel. Ahogy egy kultúra birtokba veszi önmagát...

The gift of seeing ourselves as others see us is, as the poet indicates, vouchsafed to few men.

I always thought you had you a bad case of head-up-your-ass-itis. -Kramisha

Five stage. Clinger. Totally not fucking cool!