Quotes About Self-awareness

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull.

You know. Don't pretend you don't know.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

On his way back to the living room he passed a mirror in the dining room and looked in it. His face looked strange. He smiled at the face in the mirror and it grinned back. He winked at it and went on. It was not his face but it didn't make any difference.

But you haven't got the boy, he thought. You have only yourself...

As I lay on the bed I could see the big mirror on the other side of the room but could not see what it reflected.

En það ver erfitt að viðurkenna hann sem drykkjuræfil, af þeim sökum hve fullkominn hænuhaus hann var.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God. Some people have God, I said. Quite a lot. He never worked very well with me.

He was too simple to wonder how he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

I'm sorry. I've got a nasty tongue. I never mean it when I say nasty things.

I'm thirty-four, you know. I'm not going to be one of these bitches that ruins children.

We must live with our own conscience. Each and every one of us must live with his own conscience.

I'm Not All-Right, and You're Not All-Right, But That's Okay—THAT'S All-Right

Those who lack gratitude's vision do not possess things; things possess them. And that is misery.

I am suggesting is that the past, as we remember it, has little to do with causal or determining factos that have in some way made, or influenced, us as we are today. Rather, the remembered past provides us with the means to maintain, or validate, who we are today and to give focus and direction to who we might wish to become at some future point in time.

I have come to realize, after over thirty years of studying human creativity, that the great divide is not between those who are artists and those who are not, but between those who understand that they are creative and those who have become convinced that they are not.

Peace comes when you stop trying to control the world around you and instead take responsibility for the world within you.

For the rest of the day I was glad I listened instead of yelled, but I still burned with shame at the thought of what I almost said and at all the occasions I have spoken harshly.

If you can't do, you'd best shut up about it.

Erotic excitement requires that we be able to step out of the intimate bond for a moment, turn toward ourselves, and focus on our own mounting sensations. We need to be able to be momentarily selfish in order to be erotically connected.

It is actually a sophisticated self-protective mechanism known as trauma denial—a type of self-delusion that we employ when too much is at stake and we have too much to lose. The mind needs coherence, so it disposes of inconsistencies that threaten the structure of our lives.

Non c'è niente di male nell'essere arrabbiato: nessuno te lo proibisce. Ma ti ci vuole una quantità tremenda di energia per continuare a fare finta di non esserlo.

Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don't make ripples all around you, don't try to be interesting, keep your distance, be honest, fight the desire to be thought fascinating by the outside world.