Quotes About Self-awareness

If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.

Rastafari teachings vigorously advocated self-sufficiency through self-awareness and provided an alternative source of meaning and identity to lives that were frequently mired in hopelessness, alienation, and despair.

As Socrates said, "Know thyself." Cicero said, "Control thyself." And as Jesus taught, "Give thyself.

I'm the smartest person I know and I've never read a book in my life.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster," as Friedrich Nietzsche wrote. "And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." Walter

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

If you scald your arse, Sweetland's mother used to say, you got to learn to sit on your blisters. He said, "I got what was coming

He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and profound than you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more good and more harm in the world than you've ever imagined--it is all but impossible not to believe, at least in his presence and a while after you've left him, that he alone sees through your essence, weighs your true qualities . . . and appreciates you more fully than anyone else ever has.

The majority of men are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others. Terribly objective sometimes. But the real task is, in fact, to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.'

What shall I become that I have not already become? Do we create ourselves, or are we created?

the false self must die in order for the true self to be born.

I began to find it more important to forgive my enemy on the day I found out that I am my enemy.

Culture is the last refuge, the sanctuary, the human place in the midst of the surrounding dehumanization. Through the arts man is able to know himself, even if only on the intuitive level. He senses his own worth, even when he cannot articulate it.

Man projects his wounds upon the world, my friend. He judges everything

Effective leaders strike the right balance between doing (making things happen) and being (observing and reflecting).

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. Aldous Huxley

Solitude bestows an increase in something valuable. I can't dismiss that idea. Solitude increased my perception. But here's the tricky thing: when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. There was no audience, no one to perform for. There was no need to define myself. I became irrelevant.

But the label 'crazy' bothers me. Annoys me. Because it prevents response." When someone asks if you're crazy, Knight lamented, you can either say yes, which makes you crazy, or you can say no, which makes you sound defensive, as if you fear that you really are crazy. There's no good answer.

In public, one always wears a social mask, a presentation to the world. Even when you're alone and look in a mirror, you're acting, which is one reason Knight never kept a mirror in his camp. He let go of all artifice; he became no one and everyone.

There was no audience, no one to perform for. There was no need to define myself. I became irrelevant.

reaching through time and speaking directly to him: Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground. "I recognize myself

94 per cent of us think we do above-average work.