Quotes About Self-awareness

Ama barda??m?n dibinde biram ?l?ksa, aynada koyu renkli lekeler varsa, fazlal?ksam; en içten ve en kat???ks?z ac?m, ay?bal??? gibi, hem bir y???n et hem gepgeniÅŸ bir deriyle ve insan?n içine dokunan ?slak, ama kötülük dolu gözlerle sürüklenip hantalla??yorsa bu benim kabahatim mi?

If I were ever to go on a trip, I think I should make written notes of the slightest traits of my character before leaving, so that when I returned I would be able to compare what I was and what I had become.

Ä°nsan?n kendi yüzünü anlayabilmesi belki de elinde deÄŸil. Belki de tek ba??ma yaÅŸad???m için böyle oluyor. Topluluk içinde yaÅŸayanlar, kendilerini, arkadaÅŸlar?na nas?l görünüyorlarsa aynalarda t?pk? öyle görmeyi öÄŸrenmiÅŸlerdir. Benim arkada??m yok. Tenimin bunca ç?plak olmas? acaba bu yüzden mi? Buna insans?z... evet insans?z doÄŸa denilebilir.

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company." – Jean-Paul Sartre

My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

S pogledom objamem prostor in prevzame me strašen stud. Kaj delam tu? Zakaj sem se spustil v to prerekanje o humanizmu? Zakaj so ti ljudje tu? Zakaj jedo? Res je, ne vedo, da bivajo. Želim si oditi, želim iti nekam, kjer bi bil zares na svojem mestu, kjer bi se lahko nekam uvrstil. Mojega mesta pa ni nikjer; odve? sem

his judgment went through me like a sword and questioned my very right to exist. And it was true, I had always realized it; I hadn't the right to exist.

Otodidakt konuÅŸmak istiyor gibi. Bak??? çok acayip; görmek için deÄŸil bu bak??, ruhça anlaÅŸmay? saÄŸlamak için. Otodidakt'?n ruhu, belli belirsiz göründüÄŸü o ulu kör gözlerine yükselmiÅŸ. Benimki de öyle yaps?n, gelip burnunu camlara yap??t?rs?n; ikisi de kibarca k?r?t?p dursunlar. Ruhça anlaÅŸma istemiyorum, daha bu kadar düÅŸmedim.Geri çekiliyorum.

Cómo yo, que no he tenido fuerzas para retener mi propio pasado puedo esperar que salvaré el de otro?

Les grandes personnes, établies dans mon âme, montraient du doigt mon étoile; je ne la voyais pas mais je voyais le doigt, je croyais en elles qui prétendaient croire en moi.

Mi son detto stancamente: Come poso sperare di salvare il passato di un altro, io che non ho avuto la forza di trattenere il mio?

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think . . . and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment—it's frightful—if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing.

I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow. And light: you'd think it floated all by itself. It stirs. It brushes by me, melts and vanishes. Gently, gently. There is bubbling water in my mouth. I swallow. It slides down my throat, it caresses me-and now it comes up again into my mouth. For ever I shall have a little pool of whitish water in my mouth-lying low-grazing my tongue. And this pool is still me. And the tongue. And the throat is me.

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

I often ask students: 'Is this what you would show Tom Ford?' and they say: 'No, we'd have done more work' or 'We'd have dressed better.' So I say: 'Why don't you do that here?'

I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.

A person is what is his life; if that person doesn't modify nothing inside himself, if he doesn't transform radically his life, if he doesn't work upon himself, then he is wasting miserably his time.

I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.