Quotes About Self-awareness

By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.

We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

we quite unselfconsciously assumed we were the measure of all things. That was how we approached them. And suddenly I saw not only that we weren't the measure of all things, but that there was no measure.

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

If I catch a fish before the sun rises, I have connected myself again to the deep hum of the planet. If I turn on the television because I cannot stand an evening alone with myself or my family, I am admitting my citizenship with the living dead.

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

As I applauded, I knew that it would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

If I turn on the television because I cannot stand an evening alone with myself or my family, I am admitting my citizenship with the living dead.

By not being able to tell me anything about themselves, they were telling me everything.

I saw the necessity of living and accepting bullcrap in my midst. It was everywhere. In teachers' manuals, in the platitudes muttered by educators, in school boards, in the community, and most significantly, in myself.

As Tradd approached me I turned my back toward him and found myself facing an antique mirror that reflected our three images in tarnished

realized his wounds had enhanced his manhood and his own sense of himself.

One of the greatest dangers we face in our attempt to remain humble is that the very moment we notice we are humble, we become proud of our humility- and in that instant, our humility evaporates

Humility nay be defined as a modest and realistic view of one's own importance. Someone once said that humility doesn't mean thinking less of yourself. It just means thinking of yourself less. In other words, a genuinely humble person doesn't say, I'm worthless, but instead, says, I'm no more important than anyone else- and no less important, either

Life cannot be known by the "mind," its secrets cannot be learned through the "mind." The proof is, the ceaseless strife and contradiction of opinion among those who trust in the mind. Much less can the "mind" know itself, the more so, because it is pervaded by the illusion that it truly knows, truly is.

Then he was dragged out of flight, pulled again into the shrieking snarl of wind to stare into the empty eyes of the monster that saw nothing everywhere it looked, except when it looked at itself.

I hate jealousy. At least it's its own punishment; it makes me feel like hell.

shouldn't be blaming

to live against one's grain, that is degeneration by definition.

Perhaps identity, like hell, was merely other people.

I have a definite psychosis in being with people. I cannot bear it very long.