Quotes About Self-awareness

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

cada vez que pensamos demasiado en el pasado, que volvemos una y otra vez sobre un episodio doloroso, y el psicoanálisis se reduce a poco más que eso, incrementamos las posibilidades de reproducirlo.

When you got right down to it, my dick was the one organ that hadn't presented itself to my consciousness through pain

Was I capable of being happy in solitude? I didn't think so. Was I capable of being happy in general? That's the kind of question, I think, that is best not asked.

Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%.

It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.

I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men.

I looked at my reflection in the mirror. My cycle had begun. I was now a woman. I was ready to do God's work.

little life lesson 23: before making a snide comment about someone else's outfit, check to see if you're wearing knee boots with fringe. if you answer yes, drop it. just do.

talking to yourself again, jas? yes, it beats talking to you. oh, time machine back to first grade much? only to visit your brain.

God, she was a fool. What had she expected him to do? To think? Hi, you hate me, you put your head through five mirrors to make that point, so I was thinking...

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be important. What's wrong is using other people to make yourself feel important" -Elsa

It's really not so much about the amount of yeses or nos; it's about the brokenness behind our answers.

To cope with hurt and control my fears, I grew a thick skin. Oh, the many names of power - pride, arrogance, control. I am not the frozen snow queen but a flesh and blood woman with perhaps too loving a heart, one easily hurt.

You've got two witnesses here. Happiness is a wholeness issue. If you want to be happy, you need to be whole. If you want to be married, you simply need a mate. If you want to be happily married, you need to be a whole person married to another whole person.

That's because I've learned how to use it [smile], Woserit said. I don't pass it out like an old woman giving free milk to the village cats. It's something that must be controlled, and for you especially. You use it on anyone. You must learn to be more judicious.

The reason a person practices every day is to disconnect from their deep connection to suffering. The author of the ancient Yogatattva

Vind je het erg?' 'Hoe bedoel je?' 'Over... wat ik ben.' Tot zijn verbazing grinnikte ze. 'Torak, je bent een wie, niet een wat! Je bent nog steeds een iemand.

I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.

It takes years for me to trust I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.

You can be a lousy vampire. You can be a lousy human. What you are doesn't mean anything. It's what you do with what you are that counts.

we can't keep hiding behind our faults to protect ourselves.

So I kept talking because nothing gets me going like knowing I should shut up. Oh, I should be quiet and full of potential like all those still flowers, but I know I am a weed and I've got to blow my seeds around the garden.