Quotes About Self-awareness

Lo que te hace feliz o desdichado no es el mundo ni las personas que te rodean, sino los pensamientos que albergas en tu mente.

Something other than ghosts on which his mind can fix.

I," she says, "am Aethon, a simple shepherd from Arkadia, and—

but it was also something in Sandy herself, an unwillingness to allow anything more to upset the realm of her understanding.

How silly were the idolaters of old, who knelt before the clumsy wooden figurines of their own making! We are wiser now. We kneel before mirrors.

The Oracle at Delphi contained three maxims emblematic of Greek life. "Know yourself." "Nothing in excess." and, "Offer a guarantee and disaster threatens.

A failure is not one who fails, a failure is one who blames others for their own failure.

Every man's life, he realized suddenly, was to some degree a journey into the unknown, undertaken to understand himself.

Whether he likes it or not, a man

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me, and think of me. I am what I am, I do what I do. I expect nothing, and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

My philosophy is, it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.

You have to take responsibility for who you are

If you stand too close to the sun you can't complain when all you become as a silhouette.

I wondered now if I had behaved badly and, worse still, if I had broken something that was precious to me.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

I think people mistakenly get their chaos muddled up with their creativity. Provided you know what your issues are, they're not going to go away.

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.

If I am who I am, I'm provocative, candid, and androgynous; there's nothing I can do that will make any fan think, 'I didn't expect that from her.'

I just think that it's very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

I'm not a psychiatrist.

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.