Quotes About Self-awareness

The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer devised a quick way to test for envy. Tell suspected enviers some good news about yourself—a promotion, a new and exciting love interest, a book contract. You will notice a very quick expression of disappointment

The Laws of Human Nature, 10: Beware the Fragile Ego—The Law of Envy

I feel as if I have walked into a mirrored room and glimpsed myself from an unfamiliar angle for the first time. Is that really what I look like? Is that who I am?

How odd it is, thought March afterwards, to live your life in ignorance of the past, of your world, yourself. Yet how easy to do it! You went along from day to day, down paths other people had prepared for you, never raising your head - enfolded in their logic, from swaddling clothes to shroud. It was a kind of fear. Well, goodbye to that. And good to leave it behind - whatever happened now. - 214

Be slow to label others as assholes, be quick to label yourself as one.

If you are a boss, ask yourself: When you look back at how you've treated followers, peers, and superiors, in their eyes, will you have earned the right to be proud of yourself? Or will they believe that you ought to be ashamed of yourself and embarrassed by how you have trampled on others' dignity day after day?

The most common problem I find among silent sons is their belief that they're just like everybody else. In other words, many either believe that their family was not dysfunctional (when in fact it was) or believe that it was dysfunctional, but they were not affected. This is not unusual for men. The following are some classic behavior patterns in silent sons.

It was about a hero who insisted with every breath that he was anything but a hero.

He was as much a fool as any man or woman. He just had enough experience to recognize it. It took a few seasons before a man could put that together.

The Light save me from men who think with the hair on their chests.

Letting emotions go clouds judgment for a moment, but holding them in clouds it always. Just be sure you do not release them too often, or when it is best to keep control of them.

They had a curious way of moving, in some manner blending a careful deliberateness with an almost childlike carefree joyfulness. They knew and liked who and what they were and where they were, and they seemed at peace with themselves and everything around them.

but who can know the heart of a man? Not even he himself, I suspect. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.

Wishing she could scratch, Morgase also wished that the other woman had not taken her so to heart about the dress not fitting very well. Stuffing the low-necked gown away under the bed, her old nurse had muttered some saying about displaying wares you did not mean to sell, and when Morgase claimed she had just made it up, her reply was At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying .Morgase more than half-suspected that her itchy, ill-draped dress was punishment for that gown.

It seems to me that kings—and queens—can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they're worse when they only remember what they are and forget who. Most could do with someone whose only job is to remind them that they eat and sweat and cry the same as any farmer.

When you were secure with what you were, there was no cause to resent being shown your place.

We all make our limits. The thought slid up surprisingly from somewhere. And we set them further out than we have any right.

Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That," Egwene said, "is probably why you make such a bad job of it.

Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That," Egwene said, "is probably why you make such a bad job of it." Up ahead, Elyas cackled loudly.

It was who he was. He had not changed, he had not transformed. He had merely accepted.

It is important to get connected to your soul. There are motivational thoughts that bring eternal peace and integrity. The life then gives an outlook of spiritual awareness about one's self and the world. A self-learned lesson can be helpful in terms of experiencing the intensity of positive thoughts.

I was never much good at helping people with their problems." And worse with my own, he thought.

that kings—and queens—can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they're worse when they only remember what they are and forget who.

Just as the rag doll wanted to be an eagle, the donkey a lion and the monkey a queen, the zero put on airs and pretended to be a digit.