Quotes About Self-awareness

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist. I paced from one side of the room to the other, dreaming out loud incoherent and impossible things – deeds I'd forgotten to do, hopeless ambitions haphazardly realized, fluid and lively conversations which, were they to be, would already have been.

I do not even know whether I am the one living it or if my life is living me (if we allow that empty word 'live' to mean whatever it wants to), and I should not really swear to anything at all.

To externalize impressions is more a way of persuading ourselves that we have them rather than actually having them.

Nu ÅŸtiu ce înseamn? s? m? cunosc.Nu m? v?d pe dinl?untru.Nu cred c? eu exist undeva înd?r?tul meu.

Apenas é compreensível que se peça conselhos aos outros para saber bem, ao agir ao contrário, que somos bem nós, bem em desacordo com a Outragem.

Diyelim ki, beni boÄŸmakta olan bir eli boynumdan söküyorum. O eli söküp atan kendi elimin, beni kurtar?rken boynuma bir ip geçirdiÄŸini fark ediyorum. Ä°pi boynumdan dikkatle ç?kar?yorum, ama bu kez de kendi ellerimle boÄŸaz?m? s?kmama ramak kal?yor.

Creo que admiramos con lo de admirable que hay en nosotros y nunca he tropezado con nadie verdaderamente admirable que no supiese también ser sinceramente admirador

Libertad es decidir, pero también, no lo olvides, darte cuenta de que estás decidiendo.

Lo mismo que nadie puede ser libre en tu lugar, también es cierto que nadie puede ser justo por ti si tú no te das cuenta de que debes serlo para vivir bien.

I haven't learned yet to be the instrument of unconscious good.

Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.

I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.

It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.

Woman! do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!

To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.

what they have to say about themselves makes me think that there is a lot of ill-directed good in them.

The first product of self-knowledge is humility.

Flannery O'Connor, in a note to the editor of Wise Blood that pertained to changes he wanted to make, wrote Perhaps I am prematurely arrogant . . .

I write to discover what I know

Writing this, he had reached the pit of despair and he thought that reading it, she would at least begin to sense his tragedy and her part in it. It was not that she had ever forced her way on him. That had never been necessary. Her way had simply been the air he breathed and when at last he had found other air, he couldn't survive in it. He felt that even if she didn't understand at once, the letter would leave her with an enduring chill and perhaps in time lead her to see herself as she was.

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

And she said such strange things! To her own mother she had said—without warning "Woman! do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!" she had cried sinking down again and staring at her plate, "Malebranche was right: we are not our own light. We are not our own light!

Sometimes Mrs. Turpin occupied herself at night naming the classes of people.

if you know who you are, you can go anywhere.