Quotes About Self-awareness

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. RUMI

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Greatest fools are oft most satisfied.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Quelle liberté nous reste-t'il si nos propres choix sont conditionnés par des émotions sur lesquelles nous n'avons aucune emprise ?

I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.

We're inclined to excuse in ourselves behavior that we find unacceptable in others.

Seek to know others and you will be amazed at how it will help you understand yourself.

a person acting selfishly is overly sanguine, and has too much blood; this is remedied by cutting down on meat, or by making small cuts into the veins to release blood.

When others, a man begins to blame He'll soon find himself alone, The same.

Mit unserer Psyche stimmt etwas nicht, wenn wir glauben, wir müssten uns selbst mit dem Backen von Petit Fours abquälen.

Socrates "Life, he declared, is only worth living if you think about what you are doing. An unexamined existence is all right for cattle, but not for human beings.

As soon as you start to doubt your own existence, the act of doubting proves that you exist as a thinking thing. This

the mind shaping reality just is reality. There is nothing beyond it. But this did not mean that reality remained in a fixed state. For Hegel, everything is in a process of change, and that change takes the form of a gradual increase in self-awareness, our state of self-awareness being fixed by the period in which we live.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life.

show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person

Deal with yourself as a individual worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Do friends make better mirrors?