Quotes About Self-awareness

After a while you don't know what your own needs are anymore.

She feels like a circus clown who wakes up one morning and no longer wants to glue on the red rubber nose.

I now understand that no learning that makes a difference to my soul's evolutionary journey will come from the outside. Everything I need is inside….

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

I have women coming up to me and saying: 'I love your character! She's so empowered. She takes control she gets what she wants.' That's another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do.

I have no heart?--Perhaps I have not; But then you're mad to take offence That I don't give you what I have not got: Use your own common sense.

I have no heart? Perhaps I have not; / But then you're mad to take offense / That I don't give you what I have not got; / Use your own common sense.

All others are outside myself; I lock my door and bar them out The turmoil, tedium, gad-about. I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all? If I could once lay down myself, And start self-purged upon the race That all must run ! Death runs apace.

Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us—" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

Acceptance is not something we can give to a person or thing. It only exists as a function of our relationship to our own experience.

She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let someone do that to her. She'd known all along she felt things too deeply. She became attached. She didn't want a lover who could walk away from her, because she could never do that - love someone completely and survive intact if her left her.

Njeriu që nuk qartëson ndjenjat e veta, mbetet në mes të rrugës.

Njeriu duhet ta krijojë vetë castin e vdekjes, nëse duam që t'ia kursejmë vetes një fund të tmerrshëm.

Know that the qualities you admire in others are the qualities you need to recognize and nurture inside yourself.

I think I'm basically one and the same person I was in the earlier part of my life--perhaps calmer, more accepting and certainly happier.

The ultimate goal of this book is to present fragments from an epic about an animal that evolved, started talking, started talking about the fact that it was talking, and then paused briefly before asking itself how it started talking in the first place.

Totalitarian power thrives when it alienates people from basic information about themselves. When European slavers abducted people from Africa, they essentially took away their history as well.

to be a person is to be constantly engaged in making yourself into that person

Tied to the physical, deaf to the eternal, riveted by my own shortcomings, I was thinking only of what a bad choice I'd made when choosing a partner for a chat. This guy was faking timidity to lure someone over. If I said victim, he was likely to start gnawing my neck. If I said vampire, he would demand proof. I hadn't the fangs enough to back that pretension.

In particular, judging one's own confidence in having seen or heard something—metacognition, or "knowing about knowing" (recall the four-point confidence scale in chapter 2)—is linked to anterior regions of prefrontal cortex.

Le tumulte et le désordre de notre esprit diminuent notre libre arbitre, le rendent esclave de nos émotions, c'est-à-dire des circonstances.

Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.' Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

I can't ask you to banish your fears, your anxiety or your anger...But don't let them use you up.