Quotes About Self-awareness

She will rue her lack of curiosity, her ability to see things only as she wanted to, for the rest of her life.

Benita set the letter down. Connie - her dear Connie, whom she had never even said good-bye to. Whom she had hated - really hated- for so long. But he had always been strong. He had lived his life on a plane of grand ideals and all-encompassing rights and wrongs. His view had been much longer than the trappings of his own life. And she had been the little mouse who could see no farther than her own nose, stumbling over roots and stones, oblivious to the oncoming storm.

Still, I was present. I kept a promise I made to myself a little over a year before to show up in my own life. To feel things, whether they were the result of bad memories, or good ones in the making.

Who was I if I had no one to blame for my life but myself?

Owning my faults is an easy thing for me. Learning from those realizations and breaking the cycle of making the same choices, that's the work.

We need to own our weakness, our hurt, our pain, and say it out loud so that we can name what is coming up and why. You deserve it. You deserve to feel the heartbreak and the pain so that once and for all you stop holding yourself back from feeling whatever it is you've tried to mask. No, it's not easy but you are worth the work.

Each time you deny your own truth, something intense happens. You have to listen to the signs and take care of it yourself.

Beware of those who have never been bored, depressed, or angry. There is something seriously wrong with them.

If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.

I don't hurt other people intentionally. I'm not a bad person. I have a decent job. So I like to put on high heels and a little dress. Does that make me a monster? -Edgar Saturnino, 24 (Lamentations 5:23)

Know thyself is one of the fundamental commands that aim at human strength and happiness.

Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown.

Nesmíme také zapomenout, že masochistické ponížení není opakem sadismu, ale sou?ástí symbiotického systému, v nÄ›mž úplné ovládání a úplné pokoÃ…â"¢ení jsou projevy téže hluboce uložené neschopnosti prožívat plnÄ› sv?j život.

Not only thinking and feeling are determined by man's character structure but also his actions.

El pensamiento crítico es la única arma y la única defensa que tiene el ser humano frente a los peligros de la vida. Porque si yo no pienso críticamente, estaré sujeto a todas las influencias, a todas las sugerencias, a todos los errores y a todas las mentiras que se difunden, y con lo que me han adoctrinado desde pequeño. (...)

Die Haltung dem Fremden gegenüber ist von der Haltung sich selbst gegenüber nicht zu trennen. Solange ich einen Mitmenschen als grundsätzlich verschieden von mir erfahre, solange er für mich ein Fremder ist, bleibe ich auch mir selber ein Fremder.

But while they were aware of their knowledge and used it, we repress our knowledge immediately, because if it were conscious it would make life too difficult and, as we persuade ourselves, too "dangerous.

It is the fact that man does not experience himself as the active bearer of his own powers and richness, but as an impoverished "thing," dependent on powers outside of himself, unto whom he has projected his living substance. As the reference to idolatry indicates, alienation is by no means a modern phenomenon.

O passo mais importante no aprendizado da concentração é aprender a ficar só consigo mesmo, sem ler, sem ouvir rádio, sem fumar, sem beber. Na verdade, ser capaz de concentrar-se significa ser capaz de ficar só consigo mesmo

La maggior parte della gente non si rende nemmeno conto del proprio bisogno di conformismo. Vive nell'illusione di seguire le proprie idee ed inclinazioni, di essere individualista, di aver raggiunto da sé le proprie convinzioni; e si dà il fatto che le sue idee siano le stesse della maggioranza.

A pessoa insana, ou o sonhador, falha completamente em ter uma visão objetiva do mundo exterior; mas todos nós somos mais ou menos insanos, ou mais ou menos adormecidos; todos nós temos uma visão não objetiva do mundo, falseada pela nossa orientação narcisista.

BaÅŸkalar?n?n deÄŸiÅŸebileceÄŸine inanç duymam için benim deÄŸiÅŸme deneyimini yaÅŸam?? olmam gerekir.

modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve.

People should not consider so much what they are to do as what they are. … Thus take care that your emphasis is laid on being good and not on the number or kind of things to be done. Emphasize rather the fundamentals on which your work rests.