Quotes About Self-awareness

but I never shall be very wise, I'm afraid.

Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius.

Yours, Mother? Why, you are never angry! And for the moment Jo forgot remorse in surprise. I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. I am angry nearly every day of my life, Jo, but I have learned not to show it, and I still hope to learn not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do so.

She had cherished her anger till it grew strong and took possession of her, as evil thoughts and feelings always do unless cast out at once.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it. - Louisa May Alcott

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Yours, Mother? Why, you are never angry!" "I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. I am angry nearly every day of my life, Jo, but I have learned not to show it, and I still hope to learn not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do so.

You think your temper is the worst in the world, but mine used to be just like it." "Yours, Mother? Why, you are never angry!" And for the moment Jo forgot remorse in surprise. "I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. I am angry nearly every day of my life, Jo, but I have learned not to show it, and I still hope to learn not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do so.

You are getting to be rather conceited my dear, and it is quite time you set about correcting it. You have good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. -Mrs. March

we must each be what God and nature makes us. We can't change it much--only help to develop the good and control the bad elements in us.

It must be recorded of Amy that she deliberately prinked that night. Time and absence had done its work on both the young people. She had seen her old friend in a new light, not as 'our boy', but as a handsome and agreeable man, and she was conscious of a very natural desire to find favor in his sight. Amy knew her good points, and made the most of them with the taste and skill which is a fortune to a poor and pretty woman.

As Meg went rustling after, with her long skirts trailing, her earrings tinkling, her curls waving, and her heart beating, she felt as if her fun had really begun at last, for the mirror had plainly told her that she was 'a little beauty

It's my dreadful temper! I try to cure it, I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever. Oh

I've done a good many rash and foolish things in my life, but I don't think I ever was mad enough to say I'd make six calls in one day, when a single one upsets me for a week.

I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There

a senhora não sabe, não pode saber como é ruim! é como se eu pudesse fazer qualquer coisa quando estou com raiva. fico tão selvagem que poderia ferir qualquer pessoa e ainda gostar disso. temo fazer algo horrível um dia, e estragar minha vida, e fazer com que todos me odeiem.

She laughed at herself for this fancy at first; but not possessing the sweet unconsciousness of those heroines who can live through three volumes with a burning passion before their eyes, and never see it till the proper moment comes

The thought that insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep her heart contented and her face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same.

Je suis en proie à la colère presque tous les jours de ma vie, Jo ; mais j'ai appris à ne pas la manifester et j'espère encore apprendre à ne plus la ressentir ; quand bien même cela devrait me prendre quarante autres années de ma vie.

Para mí yo no busco otra corona que la que todos pueden pretender, ni ansío la conquista de otro mundo que el que está dentro de mi propio ser.

The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

The people stared through her as though she were invisible until she thought she was, and walked more easily then, just a cloud reflected in a stream.