Quotes About Self-awareness

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.

We must constantly remind ourselves that we are eternity, infinite, beyond birth and death.

Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?

Arguing with one's self is beneficial.Out of all the million voices in my head screaming for your death, you're lucky I heeded the one that wants to spare you this time.

Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die?

You don't have any weaknesses.""I have one." He glanced at her.

I'll make a beautiful corpse.

To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren't — open your ears at your funeral.

I've diagnosed myself and discovered I have a limited 'life span' you can do this to. Then live life to its fullest in everything you do!

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs.

If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.

Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.

Live each moment from your own inspiration, not from your desire to look good in the eyes of others.