Quotes About Self-awareness

always inner-directed and indifferent to the approval of others

As Grant later confessed to his wife in frank exasperation, "You know I have an 'S' in my name and don't know what it stand[s] for.

But he was not a writer, and never would be. Try as he might, he only succeeded in putting honest words on the rack, leaving them screaming, though of this he was happily unconscious.

Para ser, tenemos que narrarnos, y en ese cuento de nosotros mismos hay muchísimo cuento: nos mentimos, nos imaginamos, nos engañamos.

Cómo había podido ser tan descuidada para vivir sin darse cuenta de que vivía, para extraviar con miserable desidia tantos años.

La #Intimidad: no tener muy claro donde acabas tú y empieza el otro. Y saberlo todo de esa persona, o al menos saber tanto. En

What I do shows me what I am seeking.

Cuando uno se libera del espejismo de la propia importancia, todo da menos miedo.

nosotros mismos hay muchísimo cuento: nos mentimos, nos imaginamos, nos engañamos.

Pero soy humana y, como tal, contradictoria y llena de inconsecuencias.

Just remember that the most important thing is to be truthful to yourself. If you hang on to that, you won't go far wrong.

I feel old and finished. I'm nearly thirty now.

Adán: ¡Dios mío! Eva: No lo llames. ¿Para qué lo quieres? Adán: Para pedirle que no nos castigue. Eva: ¿Qué más castigo quieres que esta vida ociosa sin perspectivas de progreso ni de cambio sin nada? Adán: Pero éramos tan felices... No nos faltaba nada. Eva: No deséabamos nada, que es distinto. Y no éramos felices. Éramos egoistas y cobardes. La categoría humana no se recibe; se conquista.

I am not in search of friends and confidences. I'm concentrating on being. I live each hour, one by one. My mind is quiet and still. I am no longer waiting for time to pass

She said surprisingly, in a voice as thin as a flute: Are you a good man? I like to think so, but her candor stopped me. No, I said, I'm not. I keep trying, when I remember to, but it keeps getting tougher every year. Like trying to chin yourself with one hand. You can practice off and on all your life, and never make it.

I say to myself: Who are you to measure infinite power?

Rhett: Here's the problem. I am not the sexual equivalent of an espresso machine.

That I made a mistake, and that mistake doesn't define me.

I've learnt that if you let out your anger on someone, it comes back to you like acid reflux and you've poisoned yourself and feel toxic and nauseated while the taxi driver probably just goes back to his home and wife and has a lovely life. I

we are not humans from the start; we need to become human. Toward this end, we need the insight "that only we are responsible for ourselves, that accusations that we have missed our life's calling can be directed only at us, not some higher powers". We are in no need of the delusion of a supernatural world, because the very task of becoming human is the truly colossal achievement.

The divinity dwelling in man speaks when the soul recognizes itself as an ego." Just as the sentient and intellectual souls live in the outer world, so a third soul-principle is immersed in the divine when the soul becomes conscious of its own nature.

for anyone else until you have wisely and effectively understood and undertaken to change yourself?

you will not be good teachers if you focus only upon what you do and not upon what you are.

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