Quotes About Self-awareness

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.

It's a big responsibility dating me. Because I come with a little bit of baggage, you know?

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one's self.

How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse.

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.

You are either the captain or the captive of your thoughts.

and nothing was burning, nothing but I

She knew that everything he did was wrong and the fault was hers. He pulled his notebook out of his pocket, stupidly.

It's not possible to live twenty-four hours a day soaked in the immediate awareness of one's sex. Gendered self-consciousness has, mercifully, a flickering nature.

I felt as though my wish for death contained a kind of logic that I couldn't access with my usual overly protective thoughts. That, prior to then, I'd been a kind of actor or self-hypnotist, not just when I socialized with other people but when I even thought of other people, which, put together, constituted almost always. That my wish had been completely understanding because it knew me, unlike my friends.

If you are still thinking of yourself as two parts—soul and body, then you will inevitably confuse your psychological reactions with your spiritual life, and this is not only confusing to the understanding, but it can actually, in this very psychological age, lead you into real false teaching.

Just because The Past always hung there upon its hooks on the game-room wall, you didn't have to pull it down and use it on yourself.

It can be very seductive to tell our story to others who will listen because, lets face it, who doesn't love to 'commiserate' (in this context, meaning to share their misery) with other likeminded people. It justifies our attachment to the drama. The interesting thing about telling our story over and over is that it becomes even more deeply ingrained in our minds each time we tell it, and the universe delights in keeping whatever we claim as our story alive.

I rant, therefore I am.

You cannot be happy if your primary identity is that of a victim, even if you really are one.

Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?

Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons.

Old man's gotta be the old man, fish has gotta be the fish. You gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

And then there are many who lead the life of duplicity, not realizing that as they disguise themselves away from others, more they drift away from themselves. It's a poetic justice that the web of deceit and duplicity they begin to weave inside out, thus always turns around to return home outside in.

Be thankful to your enemies, because they're always the first ones to find your faults that you never knew about. Also wish them a long life, so that they'll see you succeed in life....there is nothing in this world that would annoy them more.

Ce que les autres pensent de vous, ce est la perception, tout ce que vous savez sur vous-même est la réalité. La perception et la réalité ne correspondent parfaitement - que si vous êtes honnête et sincère dans votre caractère, et transparente dans votre comportement. La transparence est le précurseur à la confiance, à mon humble avis.