Quotes About Self-awareness

Scientists at the University of Georgia recently discovered that rats are self-aware and capable of something like introspection—complex

There's no point in being miserable. If you are then you've brought it on yourself.

A mature person is one who, having attained his majority, is able to make choices and decisions based on accurate perceptions about himself, others, and the context in which he finds himself; who acknowledges these choices and decisions as being his; and who accepts responsibility for their outcomes.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Whatever arouses us, or fails to, comes from dark, uncontrollable places in ourselves, and rarely fits who we would conscious like to be.

To turn the mind inside, stop it from going outside, and then to concentrate all its powers, and throw them upon the mind itself, in order that it may know its own nature, so that it will analyse itself, as it were, is indeed very hard work. Yet that is the only way to anything like a scientific approach towards the subject. Now

Once again, as it has with irregular regularity throughout my waking life, that sickening sense of language buried deep within comes coursing through arms, legs, chest, throat. If only I could make it reach the brain, the conversation with myself might perhaps begin.

Lo amaba, de verdad lo amaba. Pero sólo hasta cierto punto. Más allá de ese punto, había algo opaco en mí que no cedía. Podía ver la opacidad. Podía palparla y saborearla.

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Eu1 - sinele inventat, umplut cu concepte si asteptari despre bine si rau, despre ce trebuie facut, despre ce e de dorit si ce nu. Eu2 - cel care joaca

As I sat in the sun on the wooden dock that jutted out into the pond, I knew this to be true: my name was Buddy, and I was a good dog.

How do you convince your split personality that he's not real?

My stomach was pretending to be a dog, growling at me from within. If it were a dog I would snarl back—I was doing the best I could!

though this dog, like so many others in this place, was gigantic. That's when it occurred to me: it wasn't that the people and the dogs were huge; it was that I was little. I was a tiny little dog! I had met tiny dogs in my life, of course. But I had never before considered that I might be one—I had always been large, because people sometimes need the protection a large dog affords them.

A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

All pity is self-pity.

Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

Anger is not inappropriate in and of itself. But there