Quotes About Self-awareness

Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

They didn't break me. I broke myself.

Being alone is the only possible condition for me, since I don't want to make a woman unhappy, and women have a tendency to become unhappy. Being alone isn't always fun, you can't always be in form. Moreover, I have learned from experience that once you are not in form women don't remain in form either; as soon as they are bored they start complaining you've no feeling.

I called her a sentimentalist and artsy-craftsy. She called me Homo Faber.

Ich kann es nicht ausstehen, wenn man mir sagt, was ich zu empfinden habe; dann komme ich mir, obschon ich sehe, wovon die Rede ist, wie ein Blinder vor.

The egregious error committed by US statesmen and commanders was not that of lying to the world, but rather that of lying to themselves.

we should turn our most unsparing criticism toward ourselves. None is so perfect that there is no room for improvement.

We don't know very well those we love But I understand them fairly well Being all these people myself I who am however but a baboon.

A man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

Liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits,or,more expressively, not to every one is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently,do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others...He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair.

The true human being doesn't lie in the future, an object of longing, but rather it lies in the present, existing and actual. However and whoever I may be, joyful and sorrowful, a child or an old man, in confidence or doubt, asleep or awake, I am it. I am the true human being.

Cada persona tiene que conocer cuál es el dios o el demonio que maneja los hilos de su vida.

Beware of thinking all your own that you possess, and of living accordingly. It is a mistake that many people who have credit fall into.

H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken. There is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

No man is hurt but by himself," said Diogenes.

The underlying emotional problem has the same common denominator in every patient. This common denominator is that the patient has forgotten how, or probably never learned how, to control his present thinking to produce enjoyment.

We find it difficult to forgive only because we like our sense of condemnation. We get a perverse and morbid enjoyment out of nursing our wounds. As long as we can condemn another, we can feel superior to him.

create experience and control it, in the laboratory of our minds.

Many people are bowled over by the chance remark of a friend, such as "You do not look so well this morning." If they are rejected or snubbed by someone, they blindly swallow the so-called fact that this means they are an inferior person. Most of us are subjected to negative suggestions every day. If our conscious mind is working and on the job, we do not have to accept them blindly. "It ain't necessarily so" is a good motto.

This common denominator is that the patient has forgotten how, or probably never learned how, to control his present thinking to produce enjoyment.

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.