Quotes About Self-awareness

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

Not every problem in the world belongs to you.

Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

I know you think me foolish, but then, I am the Fool. You know then I must be Foolish.

Be content with you own life, my friend, and live it well. Let others decide for themselves what path they will follow.' She frowned up at him. 'Even when you see, with absolute clarity, that is wrong for them? That they hurt themselves?' 'Perhaps people have a right to their pain,' he hazarded. Reluctantly he added, 'Perhaps they even need it.

Who loves you or who you love is not as significant as who you are. Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they could attain the importance they long for.

I have never been wise.

Worrying doesn't solve anything. I know that. In one way I know it but in another it seems wrong. It seems that if I don't think about all the things that hurt, all the things I've done wrong, then I don't really care.

Sometimes," he observed obliquely, "you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect."" "p. 267: Chade to Fitz

But these things that had happened, and these feelings he now experienced were not faults to be conquered. He could not deny the feelings, nor should he try to change them. "Accept and grow," he reminded himself, and felt the pain ease. Wintrow went to pack a change of clothes.

Feelings don't have to be wise, they just are.

Sometimes you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect

And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.

Because she felt no shame at all, you think it must all belong to you. People like her are so adept at passing on blame.

Não tem de ser assim tão ruim - disse Breu calmamente. - A maior parte das nossas prisões é criada por nós mesmos. Um homem também faz a própria liberdade.

It's all my fault,' I confessed to her. 'Oh, Fitz, always you are …' She bit back whatever it was she had started to say. More gently she added, 'No one blames you.' 'I blame me.' 'Of course you do,' she said, as if I were a child insisting the moon was a cheese.

His father and his sister had both deliberately attempted to wound him, and he had let them succeed. But those things that had happened, and these feelings he now experienced, were not faults to be conquered. He could not deny the feelings, nor should he try to change them. "Accept and grow," he (WIntrow) reminded himself, and felt the pain ease." p. 107

You've learned to guard your thoughts so well, you're almost afraid to let yourself know what they are.

The exercise for centring oneself is a simple one. Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is. Then, in that place, you will finally have time to be yourself.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too

I think I made a better boy than I do man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

Fool," I began. "Yes. I am that," he said, and left.

It's a hard way to learn, but I think that's how most of us learn about jealousy. It seems like a stupid way for anyone to feel, until someone makes you feel it.

Know your heart before you do, Fitz," he added. "If you've nothing to offer her, let her go. Are you crippled? Only if you decide so. But if you're determined that you're a cripple now, then perhaps you've no right to go and seek her out.