Quotes About Self-awareness

People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.

you will be continually disappointed if you expect your husband to intuitively read your mind so that you don't have to own your own feelings

Wherever you feel the most insecure and fearful is probably where you're being the most passive.

who was a lot more than just the sum of their weaknesses.

How can you see the wave, when you're the water?

We all hold the keys to our own jail cells.

I was stealing salt shakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small child, I knew it would one day come to this.

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

People who are too sensitive go crazy, remember that

that is rare, isn't it? To be explained by yourself, by what you are and what you do, and not by what you've done, or were, or by what people think you might be or might become. I

The truth about oneself was not 'something given, something which we have to discover – it is something we must create ourselves'. Even

One of the sicknesses of the twentieth century? I'll tell you the worst one. People can't stand to be alone. Can't tolerate it! So they go to the movies, get drive-in hamburgers, put their home telephone numbers in the crapsheets and say 'Please call me up!' It's sick. People hate their own company --- they cry when they see themselves in mirrors. It scares them, the way their faces look. Maybe that's a clue to the whole thing...

Drunk people, loud people, obvious and angry people, people stammering and stumbling, spilling drinks and scarfing small burned sausages and cheese cubes on toothpicks. They had surrendered all power and direction, they they were yelling and gasping. They strengthened me. I did not want to be that way. I stood calmer, observing them.

Haces mal en asombrarte. Considera mejor tu amor. Se horrorizaría si comprendiera durante un solo instante que soy mujer y que estoy viva. Y no es olvidando las fuentes ardientes de la sangre como vas a cegarlas

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem

If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you'll never have to fear an unanticipated blow.

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.

The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.

The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.