Quotes About Self-awareness

Perhaps he often thought the same things about me, but was never obvious about it. Why couldn't it be that I was very different now from the girl he had first dated and it wasn't entirely his fault? I was hard in places where I had been soft. I was too cynical and certainly too critical now. I was sure that, at least once a day, he probably looked at me with disappointment and had his second thoughts, too. Or maybe it wasn't anyone's fault; it just was.

I am arrogant,' he once said of himself in a perceptive piece of self-analysis, 'but not conceited.

And there is no realer man than I," Vanniv replied with a nod. "Excepting for the fact that I am a magically created copy of the original Vanniv, of course, and thus completely fake.

Vanniv laughed. "Goddess, you love to hear yourself talk, don't you? I mean, I respect that — my voice is amazing — but you're coming on a little strong with the megalomania.

I think everyone's an arrow like that, too, aiming into their own centers.

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.

Perhaps he should think more about his life, aim to make something of it. Trouble was, he could imagine nothing that he wanted especially. He was happy to be a jolly good chap, competent at anything he turned his hand to and never letting down a friend or colleague. It was not much.

Nu, jaren later, zie ik zelf hoe idioot verlegen ik was. Geen wonder dat verlegen wezens zoals wij uitsterven. Wij waren nog slechts schaduwen, die voor zonsondergang nog even lang werden om daarna helemaal te verdwijnen. Ik ben ook verdwenen. Niemand weet dat ik nog leef.

Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different. I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes, but I'm not the axis of those changes.

Do you know what your problem is, Geralt? You think you're different. You flaunt your otherness, what you consider abnormal. You aggressively impose that abnormality on others, not understanding that for people who think clear-headedly you're the most normal man under the sun, and they all wish that everybody was so normal.

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster; for if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you.

And only then did I understand how stupid I was.

To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself.

I wonder what else you dreamed about. That you're a frog? Calm down. You aren't. Did you dream that you're a chump? Well, that dream might have been prophetic.

What a hideous smile I have, Geralt thought, reaching for his sword. What a hideous face I have. And how hideously I squint. So is that what I look like? Damn.

Nie jesteÅ›, cho? lubisz mniema? inaczej, specjalnie mÄ…dry. Ale na to, by spróbowa? mnie powstrzyma?, jesteÅ› za mÄ…dry.

You protect us not only from the evil lurking in the darkness, but also from that which lies within ourselves.

Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different, I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes.

Anche gli errori contano per me», disse Geralt con sforzo. «Non li cancello né dalla mia vita né dalla mia memoria. E non do mai la colpa agli altri.

Quem deve enfrentar monstros deve permanecer atento para não se tornar também um monstro. Se olhares demasiado tempo o interior de um abismo O abismo acabará por olhar o teu interior.

Brooding achieves nothing, save distress, which clearly does you no good.

I know you're almost forty, look almost thirty, think you're just over twenty and act as though you're barely ten.

Wygodniej by? Polakiem, bo skoro si? nim urodzi?e?, to masz wszystko na tacy. Masz gotowy patriotyzm, wszystkie odpowiedzi i pytania, nie musisz kszta?towa? si? w ?aden sposób, bo ci wystarcza ta polska to?samo??, do której zreszt? nie przy?o?y?e? r?ki. A czy jeste? ?wini?, czy zrobi?e? cokolwiek dobrego w tym ?yciu – to ju? niewa?ne.