Quotes About Self-awareness

I'm not arrogant about my defense.

I'm not the most articulate person.

I am not an artist.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

I give the worst possible relationship advice to people. I am not ashamed.

I can get incredibly angry, to the point that I get ashamed of my actions.

Dragostea realizeaz? un progres enorm la o femeie în clipa când ea î?i închipuie c? a procedat prea pu?in generos sau c? a rânit un suflet delicat.

Sempre que uma mulher chega a se arrepender de suas fraquezas, passa uma esponja sobre a sua vida, a fim de tudo apagar.

I used to want to know everything, to be learned; and one thing I did learn thoroughly — I knew that I was not wanted here on earth.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Youth, moreover, when bent upon wrongdoing, does not dare to behold itself in the mirror of consciousness; mature age has seen itself; and therein lies the whole difference between these two phases of life.

I know you feel too big for this place. But when you get out of here, you'll see how small you are in the world.

My mind mellows now, and I sit back, glad to be done with a busy day. Evening's tranquility presents a chance to settle in with myself and with You. It is the time of day that I most often reflect on who I am and what my life means.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.

echó afuera esa imperiosa necesidad de culpar a los otros, que es patrimonio específico de los corazones inferiores.

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

The horizons toward which we can soar are within us, anxious to break free, to emerge from our imaginings, then to beckon us forward into fresh realities. We have a mission to create, for we are evolution incarnate. We are her self-awareness, her frontal lobes and fingertips. We are second generation star stuff come alive. We are parts of something 3.5 billions years old, but pubertal in cosmic time. We are neurons of this planet's interspecies mind.

When we realize, really get to know what stinkers we are, it takes only a little depression to tip the scales in favor of suicide. - Dr. Walter Freeman (62)

Extraordinary individuals stand out in the extent to which they reflect—often explicitly—on the events of their lives, large as well as small.

The less a person understands his own feelings, the more he will fall prey to them. The less a person understands the feelings, the responses, and the behavior of others, the more likely he will interact inappropriately with them and therefore fail to secure his proper place in the world.

At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them.

For himself, he wanted to impose his values on no one. He wasn't even sure he knew what his values were.

In my experience people who can't stop making jokes about their identity aren't easy with it. The man of the world accepts who he is and the influences which have made him, and then gets on with living in the world.