Quotes About Self-awareness

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I shall not be able to find my way across the room, nor know how to conduct myself in any circumstances, nor what to feel in any relation of life.

No matter how cleverly you sneak up on a mirror your reflection always looks you straight in the eye.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

As Rorschach so poetically put it, "This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not god who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us."12

How do you avoid overconfidence? By telling yourself at least a few times per year, 'The market is much smarter than I will ever be.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we cant tolerate.

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

In every human being, there are two wolves constantly fighting. One is fear, and the other is love. When Cork had asked which of the wolves won the battle, Meloux's answer had been: The one you feed. Always the one you feed.

one of the things a healer knows is that human beings already have within them an understanding of how to heal themselves. Often, all a Mide did was help guide them to this understanding. A sweat was like that, Stephen decided, and he wondered, So what do I already know that I need to understand?

one of the things a healer knows is that human beings already have within them an understanding of how to heal themselves.

If we were perfect, the light he shines on us would just bounce right off. But the wrinkles, they catch the light. And the cracks, that's how the light gets inside us.

You stuff your own closet full of skeletons and you wonder what kind of bones everyone else has stuffed away.

He looked at his hands. Big hands. How useless a man's hands were, he thought, when it came to fixing the important things."

I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

Every father knows the disconcerting when you see your child as a weird, distorted double of yourself. It is as if for a moment your identities overlap. You see an idea, a conception of your boyish inner self...made real and flesh. He is you restarted, rewound; at the same time he is as foreign and unknowable as any other person.

We are all sealed up alone. We all carry the center of the universe inside our own heads. It is, for each of us, a point a few inches behind our eyes where the binocular lines of vision converge. Only a narcissist or a child is fool enough to believe it.

My great fear in this life didn't have a name that I knew of. I was afraid of remaining exactly who I was, and that phobia instilled a shiver of fear into every one of my days. Something as simple as a fear of cats would have been a blessing.

Sometimes you only saw yourself clearly in the eyes of those you've left, and what you saw was a horror.

There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes.

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.

What you say about me, you're really saying about yourself.

There was somebody screaming somewhere, and she kept wondering who it could be. She turned to the people who watched her and said in a lost, chiding voice, "Quit screaming, please! Screaming doesn't help!" She closed her eyes and leaned against the fence; and then she knew the person screaming was herself.