Quotes About Self-awareness

I catch myself thinking that I'm not physically visible, that whoever I'm talking to is responding to my personality, not my person.

What I would have to do later, starting in college and in the years following, to become a person of inner consequence: break that fawning inner self into pieces.

I may not be happy," she said, "but I will be .

so often my own emotions were hidden not only from other people but from myself. or perhaps it was the other way round: i was hiding from them.

For there's nothing more foolish than a man who thinks he's clever, and nothing more wise than the man who knows that he is nothing.

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool." Marguerite de Valois

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

Ce matin, l'idée m'est venue pour la première fois que mon corps, ce fidèle compagnon, cet ami plus sûr, mieux connu de moi que mon âme, n'est qu'un monstre sournois qui finira par dévorer son maître.

For the record, I would have made a very lousy romance heroine.

I would have made a very crappy book heroine.

As we have discovered, although on one level psychoanalysis allows us to attain higher levels of perception and self-awareness, on another level it is an exercise in becoming reconciled to the idea that we can never entirely know ourselves.

When I was younger, I walked on my toes and made clicking sounds with my tongue. A therapist taught me how to stop.

The older I get, the more I realize that what other people think about me has little to do with who I am. … We can't change other people, and we can't force them to see us the way we would like to be seen.

The older I get, the more I realize that what other people think about me has little to do with who I am. All of us – Jews, Catholics, Lutherans, even the godless – will always be seen by others through their personal spectacles of perception.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently." —Pema Chödrön

La gente se vuelve rara cuando pasa demasiado tiempo sola

why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.

why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.

A végén persze kiderült, hogy nincs nekem más ellenfelem, csak önmagam, csak hát fogalmam se volt, mily határtalanul gyönge vagyok.

Schneiderman (alias David Britton alias David Henry)

but embarrassment.