Quotes About Self-awareness

You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is—working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows. And the thing is, even you don't always know.

How clearly I have seen my condition, yet how childishly I have acted," says Goethe's sorrowful young Werther. "How clearly I still see it, and yet show no sign of improvement.

We sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.

I am getting the bad feeling that my friends are growing tired of me. I am growing tired of me, too.

We sometimes weep in front of the mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.

How clearly I have seen my condition, yet how childishly I have acted

I would also like to cop easily to my abundant privilege - except that the notion of privilege as something to which one could "easily cop," as in "cop to once and be done with," is ridiculous. Privilege saturates, privilege structures.

Sara Ahmed Happiness is no protection, and certainly it is not a responsibility. The freedom to be happy restricts human freedom if you are not free to be not happy. But one can make of either freedom a habit, and only you know which you've chosen.

Eleonora is a woman all too aware of her rarity and worth: she possesses not only a body able to produce a string of heirs, but also a beautiful face, with a forehead like carved ivory, eyes wide-set and deep brown, a mouth that looks well in both a smile and a pout. On top of all this, she has a quick and mercurial mind.

The world was suddenly still; nothing was being required of me; I could stand in the quiet of my own skin.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.

Remember yourself before all turns to dust

Grasp your own reality and grasp your name and learn how to write your own proof.

Commune with your own heart on your bed and be still.

Whether or not Yuki-san needs you, whether or not he needs Seguchi-san, or whether he needs anybody at all only he can say. And you won't know unless you ask.

There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

But I get ahead of myself, which is nearly as bad as getting Above Myself.

life can turn from being cheerful, warm and cozy to negative in a sec, and all it takes is us handing the power of happiness over to another human being.

The first item on a spiritual agenda is that I am not what I do, that I am what I am, and therefore I am a walking miracle, on a daily basis.

Quien no desconfía de sí mismo no merece la confianza de los otros.