Quotes About Self-awareness

Let her own shortfalls, and not your vindictive perfectionism, be the quality that throws her to destruction.

Look at yourself, idiot. You reek like the slaughter-house. Plan your dastard's revenge as you like. But for those of us liking our company civilized, spare us the horror and bathe yourself first!

Sometimes there are no victims to save, and nothing is broken that should be fixed.

It's like he never wanted anything, but only thought and fretted about what he should want, what other people wanted him to want.

It's neither possible nor desirable for individuals or nations to change completely, and to discard everything of their former identities. The challenge, for nations as for individuals in crisis, is to figure out which parts of their identities are already functioning well and don't need changing, and which parts are no longer working and do need changing.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

Can I ask why? Why what? Why you're something you're not? We're all something we're not, he said. Every one of us is stuck between the person we want to be and the person we can be and there doesn't have to be a why. All things have to do is feel right.

So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?

You a brave person?' 'I don't know.' 'You'll find out soon enough.

You'll pass or my name's not Jennifer Strange." "Your name's not Jennifer Strange." "What?" "You're a foundling. You don't know what your name is.

I . . . I . . . didn't know I could do this." "What you mean is that you did know that you couldn't—it's quite a different thing.

si sabes lo que te ha pasado, y lo entiendes, puedes dominarlo; si no lo sabes y no lo entiendes, entonces es eso lo que te domina a ti. Y te come por dentro.

You are your own marketing weapon—not only the things you say and do but also the things you are and believe. According to studies reported in Time magazine, the best five personality traits for you to possess are extroversion, agreeableness, emotional stability, conscientiousness, and openness to experience. It also helps immensely if you like and are fascinated by people.

What on my to do list is possibly more important than taking the time to anchor myself in my own presence?

You described the feeling you'd always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world, and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other people had a clearer idea of what they were doing, and didn't worry quite so much about why.

Everyone is vulnerable to something. The trick is to recognize your own weaknesses and blind spots so that you can come up with a way to protect them.

The older I get," Rafe said, shifting gears to negotiate the curving road that led down from the institute, "the more I'm convinced that the only good, working definition of 'normal' is the fact that you're still walking around outside and not locked up in a padded cell.

You know what they say about your greatest strength." "It's also your greatest weakness," she said quietly. "Right. The only defense anyone has is to be aware of both." He used his fork to spear another bite of salmon. "Play to one and guard against the other.

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

Les miroirs feraient bien de réfléchir un peu plus avant de renvoyer les images.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

W]e have a tendency to judge others according to ourselves.

Gute Erziehung besteht darin, dass man verbirgt, wieviel man von sich selber hält und wie wenig von den anderen.