Quotes About Self-awareness

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

He shut his eyes. "What an idiot I was up there. Stupid, naïve . . . and slow, slow, slow to understand." "Honest, perhaps?" Dobrowski said. Halperin was angry, but not with Dobrowski. "Isn't honesty in a situation like that plain stupidity?

He shut his eyes. "What an idiot I was up there. Stupid, naïve . . . and slow, slow, slow to understand." "Honest, perhaps?" Dobrowski said. Halperin was angry, but not with Dobrowski. "Isn't honesty in a situation like that plain stupidity? I could have lied. I could have continued to lie.

GENERAL STATEMENT FOR ALL CONCERNED: I do not wish you to be perturbed in any way by my current uncommunicative behaviour. I wish it to be known that I am not pursuing any friendships at the moment because I can not think of anything to say and I suspect I am bad for people. I am too egotistically involved in my own decay to focus on the troubles and triumphs of others...

Happiness is a skill. Don't pursue it-embrace it.

'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.

M]an [has] the power of abstraction from himself[.]

Whatever kind of object … we are at any time conscious of, we are always at the same time conscious of our own nature[.]

We know the man by the object[.] Even the moon, the sun, stars, … [t]hat he sees them is an evidence of his own nature.

I cannot so abstract myself from myself as to judge myself … ; another has an impartial judgement; through him I correct, complete, extend my own judgement, my own taste, my own knowledge.

Thou believest in love as a divine attribute because thy thyself lovest; thou believest that God is a wise, benevolent being because thou knowest nothing better in thyself than benevolence and wisdom; and thou believest that God exists, that therefore he is a subject … because thou thyself existest, art thyself a subject[.]

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

Soñar despierto con un mundo "justo" que lo trataría de acuerdo con su "valor real" es el refugio de todos aquellos plagados de falta de autoconocimiento.

Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

For the first time in my life I begin to understand how a parent might hit a child ..it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

It is amazing how you can look in a mirror your whole life and think you are seeing yourself clearly. And then one day, you peel off a filmy gray layer of hypocrisy, and you realize you've never truly seen yourself at all. I

I used to stand in front of the mirror in the bathroom to see what they were staring at. I wanted to know what made their heads turn, what it was about me that was so incredibly different. At first I couldn't tell. I mean, I was just me. Then one day, when I looked in the mirror, I understood. I looked into my own eyes and I hated myself, maybe as much as all of them did. That was the day I started to believe they might be right.

I can't answer a single one of these, which is how I know that whether I'm ready or not, I'm growing up.

She had tried to hide the discomfort behind the mask of competence that she usually wore, only to realize that in her hurry, she must have left it behind somewhere.

The Native Americans know that wolves are mirrors for humans. What they show us are our strengths and weaknesses... When I lived with the wolves, I was proud of the reflection of myself. But when I came back, I always paled in comparison.

Here's what girlfriends do for you: they provide the reality check. They are the ones who tell you when you have spinach between your teeth or when your ass looks fat in a pair of jeans or when you're being a bitch. They tell you, and there's no drama or agenda, like there would be if the message had come from your husband. They tell you the truth because you need to hear it, but it doesn't alter the bond between you.