Quotes About Self-awareness

?nsanlar?n beni sevdi?ini bilsem de, san?r?m onlar? sevme yetene?im yoktu.

Quando scoprii che il mio concetto della felicità sembrava in pieno contrasto con quello d'ogni altra persona, fu tale l'angoscia che mi dibattei gemendo insonne nel mio letto per notti e notti di seguito.

Being able to laugh at ourselves and at the comical aspects of sex will take the pressure off the whole experience.

Don't allow yourself to be satisfied with your success. Critique what you've achieved and ask what you can learn from others.

You can learn a lot from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

I envy people who drink—at least they know what to blame everything on.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

There is luxury in self-reproach.... When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability.

Be you because everyone else is taken!

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted - and that's what all conditioning is.

You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.

Be — don't try to become

Si pudiera me gustaría escribir con amor; pero si pudiera escribir con amor sería un hombre distinto al que soy.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.