Quotes About Self-awareness

I am," I said. "I'm the problem.

That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that I thought it was cool, and I thought it was fun, and it was exciting at the time. It all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself with no one to talk to but myself.

The only fool he tolerated gladly was himself

Who can talk you through this stuff before you decided to act on it?" "Well," said the president, "you won't like the answer, but the answer is me. Me. I talk to myself.

As often as not, he surprised himself. "What did I say?" he would ask after getting severe blowback.

Confused to find that the power of the presidency had limitations, he came to see the limitations as his own

he had no interest in personnel problems, since they put the emphasis on other people.

There was some argument about this, because he could read headlines and articles about himself, or at least headlines on articles about himself,

Well," said the president, "you won't like the answer, but the answer is me. Me. I talk to myself.

When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself.

A wise man never loses anything if he have himself.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.

Everyone recognizes me in my book, and my book in me.

My trade and art is to live.

A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.