Quotes About Self-awareness

he knew his own soul, it was dear to him, he protected it as the eyelid protects the eye, and did not let anyone into his soul without the key of love.

We often believe that our life moves forward only when we meet others. This is not true. Our real lives unfold when we are alone, when we are one-on-one with our thoughts. A thought is a great force. This force finds its way out of a person through words, making one's deeds a blessing or a curse, depending on whether it was a good or bad thought. It

All that spring he was not himself and lived through terrible moments. "Without knowing what I am and why I'm here, it is impossible for me to live. And I cannot know that, therefore I cannot live," Levin would say to himself.

The time for fooling himself was over: something new and dreadful was going on inside Ivan Ilyich, something significant, more significant than anything in his whole life. And he was the only one who knew it; the people around him didn't know, or didn't want to know-they thought that everything in the world was going on as before. This was what tormented Ivan Ilyich more than anything.

O lo que yo llamaba racional no lo era tanto como había pensado, o lo que me parecía irracional no lo era tanto como había pensado.

the mere fact of the death of a near acquaintance aroused, as usual, in all who heard of it the complacent feeling that, "it is he who is dead and not I.

He felt himself, and did not want to be any one else. All he wanted now was to be better than before. In the first place he resolved that from that day he would give up hoping for any extraordinary happiness, such as marriage must have given him, and consequently he would not so disdain what he really had. Secondly, he would never again let himself give way to low passion.

si Eugène Irténieff était un malade psychique, alors tous les hommes le sont également, et parmi eux les plus malades sont ceux qui voient les indices de la folie chez les autres et ne les voient point en eux-mêmes.

Tal vez la facultad de ver los defectos propios sea un hermoso rasgo de nuestro carácter. Pero los exageramos y nos consolamos de ellos con la ironía que tenemos siempre en los labios.

We Russians are always like that. Perhaps it's our strong point, really, the faculty of seeing our own shortcomings; but we overdo it, we comfort ourselves with irony which we always have on the tip of our tongues. All I say is, give such rights as our local self-government to any other European people—why, the Germans or the English would have worked their way to freedom from them, while we simply turn them into ridicule.

Beni tan?d???n? sand?. Oysa beni tan?yan herhangi bir kimsenin tan?d??? kadar az tan?yor beni o da.Kendim bile tan?m?yorum kendimi.Frans?zlar?n deid?i gibi, nelerden zevk ald???m?biliyorum, yaln?zca.

He felt himself and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than he had been before.

Pero es difícil que un hombre descontento consigo mismo no culpe a otra persona, sobre todo a la que tiene más cerca, de su situación. Y Levin

people invite me out and tell me all about myself.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. - W. B. Yeats

To go, or not to go?' he asked himself; and his inner consciousness answered that he ought not to go: that it could only result in hypocrisy; that it was impossible to restore their relations because it was impossible to render her attractive and capable of exciting love, or to turn him into an old man incapable of love. Nothing except hypocrisy and falsehood could now result—and these were repugnant to his nature.

Mas, para uma pessoa insatisfeita, é difícil não por a culpa nos outros, sobretudo em quem estiver mais perto de tudo aquilo que causa a sua insatisfação.

La soledad es para el alma la magnífica ocasión de conocerse, de vigilarse, de formarse a sí misma

Solo los cerebros vacíos, o los corazones inconstantes, tiene miedo de quedar en silencio frente a sí mismos

En lugar de quejarnos de la soledad, bendigámosla, aprovechemos la posibilidad inesperada que nos da para examinarnos en silencio, para dominarnos lucidamente y totalmente, hasta en nuestros más contradictorios pensamientos

No estamos en este mundo para comer a horas fijas, para dormir con regularidad, para vivir cien o más años. Todo esto es vano y es necio. Sólo una cosa cuenta: tener una vida útil; perfilar el alma; estar pendiente de ella, instante por instante; vigilar sus debilidades y exaltar sus impulsos; servir a los demás derramar a nuestro alrededor la dicha y la ternura; ofrecer el brazo al prójimo, para elevarnos todos, ayudándonos los unos a los otros

Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman and I've had enough.

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.