Quotes About Self-awareness

Si sé que no tengo «algo», no tengo que poseerlo. Y si no poseo nada, puedo tenerlo «todo». Enseguida, otro pensamiento sacudió al Caballero: ?Saber que no poseo nada significa no tener nada que defender... y saber que no sé nada significa que no tengo que demostrar nada. ¿Estoy en lo cierto?

Nunca nos deshacemos de algo que nosotros mismos hemos creado. Sólo podemos abrazarlo como algo nuestro y no sentirnos mal por tenerlo ?respondió Merlín.

If the creative process is so powerful, it would be natural to wonder why many artists have difficulties in their lives. It is because they do not know what they know.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out.

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and his fellow men.

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

He was not a man who told himself comfortable lies.

She locked the bathroom door and sat down on the floor in the loose T-shirt she had worn to bed, focusing on her breathing, on the feel of the cool tiles beneath her bare legs, observing, as she had been taught, the rapid beating of her heart, the adrenaline jolting through her veins, not fighting her panic, but watching it. After a while, she consciously noticed the faint smell of the lavender body wash she had used last night, and heard the distant passing of an airplane.

Maybe (she was deliberately inflaming her own resentment now, and she knew it)

Pretending you're OK when you aren't isn't strength.

Would I call myself English?' he mused aloud. 'No, I'd probably say British.

I tell these stories because I have lied about my life to people who have been kind to me and I am tired of lying. I tell it because I don't want people to think that I have fucked up my life over and over just because I was in a bad mood.

Learn your own faults and vices; but do not assume that all of them should be eradicated. Sometimes, like beasts serving a greater master, they provide necessary balance and thus deserve indulgence; sometimes they are the indivisible shadows of virtues themselves.

Any man who is truly worthy must consider himself unworthy.

Some people live their entire life not knowing who they are, others live their life thinking they are something they are not. Only a luck few are blessed enough to find themselves in someone else.

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.

He was afflicted with what I call "Asshole Blindness," where people don't realize or underestimate how dire an asshole problem is, how much they and perhaps others are suffering, and how important it is to get out as soon as possible.

What you "learn" from Steve Jobs tells more about yourself than about him!

smart people who get bad grades are listening to their inner voice, doing what they believe is interesting and right.

the key to self-awareness isn't found inside our heads; it's in discovering and accepting how others see us—even when it hurts.

Stress can bring out your unresolved issues. Like many silent sons, you may be at a low boiling point but not realize it. When stress occurs, your reactions are extreme and you don't understand why.