Quotes About Self-awareness

And once Father Lucas said to me, 'Be simple, Matthew, life is a simple book, and an open book, read and be simple as the beasts in the field; just being miserable isn't enough -- you've got to know how.' So I got to thinking and I said to myself, 'This is a terrible thing that Father Lucas has put on me -- be simple like the beasts and yet think and harm nobody.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

To be utterly innocent would be to be utterly unknown, particularly to oneself.

There was some derangement in her equilibrium that kept her immune from her own decent

To our friends,' he answered, 'we die every day, but to ourselves we die only at the end.

My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.

Znam, i zlo?in se lakše priznaje od zablude. Inteligentnom ?oveku najteže je da prizna zabludu. Me?utim,samo od njega to se i može o?ekivati.

?ovek ima razlog da se razo?ara samo u sebe. U svet i ljude, razo?arani su glupaci.

I bez stvarnog zna?aja nam je što je vasiona beskraj i krug, jer mi verujemo da smo u njenom centru. I sa svim svojim napretkom i znanjima, mi se u sebi nismo promakli od tog privida, te svoje jedne ta?kice u središtu plavog prostora. Jer bilo šta da uradimo, bilo gde da stignemo, uvek smo u središtu, uvek smo sebi u središtu, svagda nam se horizonti savijaju u krug. Kad bismo bar videli da je taj krug nama jedino vidna i znana - ve?nost. Ve?nost kojoj ne pripadamo.

Od spoljnih nepogoda ljudskog života, najužasnija je nepogoda - Vreme. U radosti ima brzinu svetlosti, u patnji staje. Malo ga imamo za razumevanje sveta u kome smo bez krivice, a osu?eni da ga s mukom shvatamo, svaku istinu preplatimo, najbitnije ne saznamo. No?as se, valjda, kona?no osveš?ujem: ?ovek nema vremena sebe da shvati.

If you don't manage your emotions, then your emotions will manage you.

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

Every morning I start with a drink from my cup of sunshine, to remind myself of who I am before I step into the world of "this is who we think you are."

Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . And I also know that I'm not blonde.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde either.

It doesn't bother me when someone calls me a 'dumb blonde.' I'm neither dumb or blonde.

I know who I am; I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I am capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

If you try to follow everyone else and be like everyone else, before you know it you're gone. You're not going to find yourself again; you'll just be a version of what you might have hoped to have been.

Show yourself more human than critical and your pleasure will increase.

I have no soul: I am not a substance, and there is no real me. There is only what I am able, rather uncertainly, to make of myself as I go along, and what you can make of me: that is, I am only a stream of events, a process in time, and all ideas of me are only interpretations of that process, or bits of it.

If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.