Quotes About Self-awareness

CunoaÈ™terea nu m-a f?cut fericit, m-a cuprins o furie surd? împotriva legii evoluÈ›iei, care acceptase ca în una È™i aceeaÈ™i minte s? existe atâta sensibilitate È™i atâta stâng?cie totodat?. În mine se revolta propriul eu ca un iepure în capcan?.

a personality is reduced to mere wax, a mere receiver of impressions; and this condition is the very negation of the basic drive in him—to rebel. It is no wonder that in middle age many such failed rebels, rebels turned self-conscious drones, aware of their susceptibility to intellectual vogues, adopt a mask of cynicism that cannot hide their more or less paranoiac sense of having been betrayed by life." ' While

I am weak. But ashamed of your weakness. What good could my strength bring to the world?

Exist? trei feluri de oameni inteligenÈ›i: unii atât de inteligenÈ›i, încât consider? de la sine înÈ›eles s? li se spun? asta, cei din a doua categorie sunt suficient de inteligenÈ›i s?-È™i dea seama c? sunt flataÈ›i, nu descriÈ™i È™i cei din a treia, care sunt atât de puÈ›in inteligenÈ›i încât nu înÈ›eleg nimic.

Bir budalan?n düÅŸtüÄŸü yüksekliÄŸin öfkesiyle ölçüldüÄŸünü biliyordum.

We could not expect him to see what we are only just beginning--and with so much more knowledge and the lessons of existentialist philosophy at our disposal--to realise ourselves: that the desire to hold and the desire to enjoy are mutually destructive. His statement to himself should have been, I possess this now, therefore I am happy, instead of what it so Victorianly was: I cannot possess this forever, and therefore am sad.

Ever read this? Let's cut corners. To hell with literature. You're clever and I'm beautiful. Now let's talk about who we really are.

Here's a QBQ twist for all of us: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know—it's me!

God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know—it's me!

The best thing we can do to get rid of victim thinking in our world is to get rid of it in ourselves. The first QBQ guideline says all

Only those strong enough to keep silent about self are strong enough to be sure of self.

A woman should not behave with a man as if she is exclusive or intimate if he is still working through issues with other women. And she should not mistakenly believe that if she listens sympathetically to him, he will become convinced she is the one for him.

mistake. If he gives up the cave (and denies his true nature) he becomes irritable, overly sensitive, defensive, weak, passive, or mean. And to make matters worse, he doesn't know why he has become so unpleasant.

Belief in the liberating power of knowledge has become the ruling illusion of modern humankind. Most want to believe that some kind of explanation or understanding will deliver them from their conflicts. Yet being divided from yourself goes with being self-aware. This is the truth in the Genesis myth: the Fall is not an event at the beginning of history but the intrinsic condition of self-conscious beings.

After reading a few pages you will begin to laugh at your own mistakes. With this lighthearted reaction it becomes easier to relax and not take yourself or your partner's mistakes so seriously.

The important point here is that to enrich our relationships we need to make little changes. Big changes generally require some suppression of who we truly are.

To find our loving feelings, many times we need first to feel all our negative feelings.

There are a few good ones, but most are losers who are too stupid to realize they are losers. And who are we to tell them? They are vastly superior to us, regardless of their stupidity, and they enjoy reminding us of this.

Oh well. Part of being single was dealing with the misconceptions of others.

All I see is someone running away from who he really is. I ain't running away, I called back. And that was the biggest lie I'd ever told.

True greatness is not about comparisons with others. Rather, it's about being the best possible version of myself each and every day!

All men, I think, wonder who the secret man that lives inside them is and whom they will meet in the mirror when they stop shaving. They wonder if that man is better than the one they know. If that elder sage or fantasy wizard or feral mountain man will be wiser than they, and when they are lost, if that dude will light up his staff and guide them through the dwarven mines and out of the wilderness.

We are the only creators, the only gods. Guilty gods, negated gods, damaged, schizophrenic gods, but above all self- changing gods.

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.