Quotes About Self-awareness

de su maestro Nó-Elin: Quien no desconfía de sí mismo no merece la confianza de los otros.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

A mirror has no heart but plenty of ideas.

Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Try persuading the world not to cut its throat for half a decade or more...and it'll begin to dawn on you that even your behavior's part of its plan.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

We may rely on others and turn to others for help, but ultimately our answers come from within.

You must nourish the body with healthy food, the heart with joy, compassion and love, the mind with knowledge and the spirit with equanimity and self-awareness. . . . If you fill yourself with other kinds of satisfaction, food will no longer be a problem.

More and more I was beginning to feel like a spectator in my own life.

She looked up to stare at her reflection in the mirror, as if she'd never seen her face before either.

What did Noughts see when they looked at me – a light-skinned Cross? What did Crosses see when they looked at me – a dark-skinned Nought? I had to stop seeing myself through anyone's eyes but my own. But

You want to come in my life, the door is open. You want to get out of my life, the door is open. Just one request. Don't stand in the door, you're blocking the traffic

Jeffrey looked at being an alpha a lot like having a hard-on. If he walked around with a stiff one in his pants all the time, it was uncomfortable for him and just about anyone else he happened upon. But if he had it when needed—well, it could be one hell of a good time.

was it they who were flawed, or was it he?

San Juan points out that the two great enemies of integration within man are his mind and his emotions.

You are being manipulated when someone reduces, by any means, your ability to be your own judge of what you do.

If you do not recognize your assertive right to choose to be responsible only for yourself, other people can and will manipulate you into doing what they want by presenting their own problems to you as if they were your problems.

You do not respond to your critic's statements of wrongdoing with denial, defensiveness, or countermanipulation with criticisms of your own. Instead, you break the manipulative cycle by actively prompting further criticism about yourself or by prompting more information about statements of "wrongdoing" from the critical person in an unemotional, low-key manner.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Let people know when you feel unhappy, disappointed, or hurt about something. Once the feeling has been acknowledged by you—not necessarily by others—it tends to dissipate and is less likely to trouble you. If you hold your feelings inside, you are apt to explode at some minor incident, potentially causing still more harm to your health. Own up to what is in your heart and make peace with it forever.

Often, as I reflected on this story, it seemed to me a kind of image of my own life—the life of a man who gorged himself on pessimism, believing he would find in it a means to a dazzling and meteoric existence, loving his own despair until the day he realized—too late—that he could no longer emerge from it, and that he had thus fallen into the trap of his own enchantments.

Le pire mensonge est de se mentir à soi-même.

Fiecare oglind? îÅ£i ofer? imaginea unui spectacol jucat f?r? niciun spectator, în care actriÅ£a e propria-Å£i mizerie.