Quotes About Self-awareness

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

Ma souffrance est ma vengeance contre moi-même.

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

We pride ourselves on nothing but the courage to be trivial. For a person is simple in his striving for truth, and it is honest to admit this openly.

Too many people are unaware that it is not outer events or circumstances that will create happiness; rather, it is our perception of events and of ourselves that will create, or uncreate, positive emotions.

The expense of making yourself panicked, enraged, and self-pitying is enormous. In time and money lost. In needless effort spent. In uncalled-for mental anguish. In sabotaging others' happiness. In foolishly frittering away potential joy during the one life—yes, the one life—you'll probably ever have.

Life offers a cruel choice: you can be right or happy. Not both. This is true regardless of whom you may be involved with, but it is especially true if there is an emotional vampire in your life.

Emotional Vampires never grow up. Throughout their lives, they see themselves as victims of fate and the unpredictability of others. Stuff happens, and they just respond to it. As a result, they have no opportunity to learn from their mistakes, and they just keep on making the same ones over and over.

Therefore, the more technological the world becomes, the more essential will be the demand for individual freedom and the self-awareness of the individual human being as a counterpoise to technology…. Consequently this trial must contribute to laying down the ground rules for life in human society. What does my own fate signify, after all that has happened and in comparison with so important a goal?

I don't always feel what I know I should feel. My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly Because the suit men made it wear weighs it down.

I don't know what understanding myself is. I don't look inside. I don't believe I exist behind myself.

Ni la perfección ni la madurez están entre mis metas.

Uno tiene una vida incluso cuando no tiene vida.

Así que floto, a la deriva, como si fuera una misión, mirando al cielo, pensando en eso de que uno se siente solo cuando está con gente; cuando uno está solo, en cambio, hasta puede que se sienta acompañado.

Al estar rodeado de tanta gente, de estar tan expuesto, de no tener tiempo para aquellos placeres autistas que te alimentan, uno termina por echarse de menos.

Ahí es donde uno aprende y capta si uno se la puede: si uno es capaz de estar en silencio con uno mismo.

Es bueno defender las cosas que se sienten, pero para hay que sentirlas y para eso hace falta algo más.

Non è solo chi è solo; è solo chi si sente solo.