Quotes About Self-awareness

You have never sought to make light of your failings, I do not think you need fear our too harsh condemnation. You have been commonly your own sternest judge." So he had, but that, well handled, can be one way of evading and forestalling the judgements of others.

On almost all of which counts he was in error, but since no one was ever likely to tell him so, there was no harm done.

There was a time when I'd hoped… But it would never have done. I was an old fool ever to think of it, and it's better this way.

Don't interrupt a man when he's giving himself hell.

What do you do from morning to night? I endure myself.

If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.

no le había quedado más remedio que hacerse una confesión: aún temblaba al ver pasar a Mouret, pero ahora sabía que no era de miedo.

Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life, he answered; and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.

Le tengo constantemente en mi pensamiento, aunque no siempre como una cosa agradable. Tampoco yo me agrado siempre de mí misma. No hables más de separarnos, porque eso es irrealizable.

Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes-- Don't get the expression of a vicious cur that appears to know the kicks it gets are its desert, and yet, hates all the world, as well as the kicker, for what it suffers.

Yo presumí que una persona que podía especular de antemano sobre el giro que daría a sus arrebatos de ira podría, de proponérselo, dominar también esos arrebatos.

Los soberbios dan pábulo a las propias penas.

Cathy's a monster but there were a few things she got right. If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger

Las personas orgullosas no hacen más que atormentarse a sí mismas.

Un homme sensé doit trouver une compagnie suffisante en soi-même.

Os orgulhosos provocam suas próprias tristezas.

What vain weather-cocks we are!

Un hombre sensato debe tener bastante compañía consigo mismo

Razborit ?ovjek mora na?i dovoljno društva u samom sebi.

Ama kesinlikle sen de bilirsin, ba?ka herkes de bilir ki, kendinizin d???nda, yine siz olan ba?ka bir varl?k vard?r ya da olmal?d?r.

Pero no tendrá usted ganas, señor Lockwood, de oírme moralizar. Usted es tan capaz como yo de juzgar todo esto por sí mismo, o por lo menos se creerá usted capaz de hacerlo, que viene a ser lo mismo.

Un hombre sensato debe tener bastante compañía consigo mismo. -¡Magnífica compañía- murmuró Heathcliff [...]

I am now quite content in my seeking pleasure in society be it country or town, a sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.