Quotes About Self-awareness

One who reveals your faults to you like a mirror is your true friend, and one who flatters you and covers up your faults is your enemy.

All the problems that came up... they all arose because of the foreign bodies within us ? things that happened in our childhood, some big, some small, but all significant; things that happened ten years ago, but still control our lives today; things from our yesterdays that will decide what we drink, dream, and doubt, till the day we die. But you can't see those things, because they're not on the outside.

Work on yourself first, take responsibility for your own progress.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

My greatest strengths are my weaknesses, for it is through acknowledging them that I learn how to grow.

My greatest strengths are my weaknesses, for it is from those that I learn how to grow.' Iain Cameron Williams

She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.

One should try to be honest with oneself almost as a daily devotion.

And then, believe it or not, it came to me for the first time that all the difference was caused by me.

But I was a fool, the biggest, damnedest, stupidest fool in thee whole world.

I stared so long that I got to seeing them as being dark, ugly sins in my body, smelling and dirty, but my touch face showed that I didn't give a damn. I was the toughest person in the whole world. And then inside the outline of my body a devil's face slowly took shape. It came to my chest, a dark, ugly thing with big lips that looked hot around yellow pointed teeth, eyeing me in a friednly way, as though it had been feeding on what was inside me and was trying to show how pleased it was.

He simply knew his own mind and found it company enough.

Ce anume ne-a f?cut de fapt s? îl urm?m în abisul în care acesta ne-a condus, la fel cum l-au urmat copii din poveste pe Cânt?reÈ›ul din flaut? Enigma nu este Hitler, Enigma suntem noi.

If God truly were inside you, could you bear to look at it? Necdet says.

And?" "Ah." She was not certain whether it was the room's heartbeat she was hearing, or her own. "Would you like to sit down?" Her voice sounded as if coming from kilometers away as she said, "No. Thank you.

in the continued existence of those other things he saw his own being reflected.

We judge others by their actions, but we judge ourselves by our intentions.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions

But you used to know a good thing when you saw it. Trouble is, that's never what I see when I look in the mirror. What do you see? He looked at her. Sometimes I don't see anything at all.

When I wake, a piece of sharp green glass on the floor is cutting into my hand and I know it's a sign. I etch a letter on my hand; put it on top so I can see the jagged edges bleeding out; S. S is for sorrow, for all I don't say. S is for sick now, my punishing ways.

And in those final years, when he was off doing shit on his own, Spike didn't stick to the rules. He started to think he was too smart. Too ingenious. He was definitely feeling himself. He even changed his name. When I met him, he was simply

I have often found it difficult to explain myself to myself, and I do not often try.

TÚ quieta, aunque el trapecio todavía se mueva y te delate.

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.