Quotes About Self-awareness

sea lo que sea lo que queramos pensar de nosotros mismos, no somos sino el resultado del trato que hemos recibido por parte de los demás.

I'm not remotely interested in me as a subject," she said. "I'm interested in me as an object, and my honesty isn't brave, because it's not for me, it's not about me. It's just that I'm all I've got.

I don't know,' I said. 'I don't think I know how to be a woman. I believe that no one ever showed me.' 'It isn't a question of showing,' he said. 'It's a question of being permitted.

my individuality had tormented me my whole life with its demand to be recognised.

My husband Tony sometimes says to me that I underestimate my own power, and I wonder whether that makes living more hazardous for me than for other people, the way it's dangerous for those who lack the ability to feel pain.

O que Ryan havia aprendido com isso era que os seus fracassos vivem voltando para você, enquanto os seus sucessos são algo de que você precisa sempre se convencer.

Ele não olhou para mim nem sequer uma vez, pois os momentos em que as pessoas estão demonstrando o próprio poder sobre as outras são aqueles em que têm menos consciência delas.

Fear is a habit like any other, and habits kill what is essential in ourselves. I was left with a kind of blankness, Jeffers, from those years of being afraid.

He doesn't comment and he doesn't criticise and this puts him in an ocean of silence compared to most people. Sometimes his silence makes me feel invisible, not to him but to myself, because as I've told you I've been criticised all my life: it's how I've come to know that I'm there.

perhaps because I myself was not especially the focus of anyone's attention.

I felt myself becoming empty, he said, as though I had been living until now on the reserves I had accumulated over the years and they had gradually dwindled away.

Whatever we might wish to believe about ourselves, we are only the result of how others have treated us.

You could spend your whole life', she said, 'trying to trace events back to your own mistakes.

I'm really quite efficient you know'. He shook his head over me. 'Too much conscience. You must find yourself very difficult to live with

Pratite me do sobe?« upitala je i ne pokuÅ¡avajuci prikriti razdražljivost. »Da.« Ali ni on nije zvucao sretno zbog toga. »ZaÅ¡to? Ne morate me pratiti do sobe.« »Ja sam drag momak.« Trpko se nasmijala i pogledala ga krajickom oka. »Ako to stvarno mislite, gadno se varate. Možda su vas previÅ¡e puta udarili u glavu.«

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

The fact that I am Latino is not a secret. There's not much I can do about that. It is what it is. I think people know that my last name ends in a vowel. What can I tell you?

I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. But I also see why it's appealing - I've had that little high you get from posting stuff online. But then you think, 'Did I need to say that?' I've explored that enough to know to stay kind of quiet these days.

Strength, to me, is about exposing vulnerabilities and foibles and facts and people that are honest.

I think you start in middle life to recognize your vulnerabilities, if you're lucky. You admit them and people find that interesting.

We have to transcend our own negativity and vulnerability and work from our own inner security.

I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.

I'm not on the stage going, 'Look at me! I'm amazing!' I accept my vulnerability, don't pretend I'm something I'm not. I don't want to come across as fake.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.