Quotes About Self-awareness

The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist. —THE AZHAR BOOK; SHAMRA I:4

Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it," she said. "But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.

Ce anume dispre?uie?ti? A?a po?i fi cunoscut cu adev?rat.

L'ironia spesso nasconde l'incapacità di andare oltre le proprie convinzioni.

Oamenii o duc cel mai bine când fiecare îÈ™i are locul s?u, când fiecare È™tie ce reprezint? el în rânduiala lucrurilor È™i ce poate înf?ptui. Distruge acest loc È™i vei distruge individul.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. —FROM "COLLECTED SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

Cuántas veces el hombre encolerizado niega con rabia lo que le dicta su conciencia!

soportarse a uno mismo podía llegar a ser la tarea más complicada de todo el universo.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

It's lovely to know the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.

For many writers, the journal is their opportunity to be honest with them- selves—the greatest test of all.

All mature adults must accept that they are essentially unknowable--and that they will never know the one they love.

Modesty is not one of my virtues. At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important. This car is fine for me. It gets me around. I know who I am and what I am, and that's what counts, not what other people might think of me.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one's ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.

And don't demand any sincerity from me, Milena. No one can demand it from me more than I myself and yet many things elude me, I'm sure, perhaps everything eludes me.

My fear is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

You will get to know me better; there are still a number of horrible recesses in me that you don't know.

There am I. I cannot leave. I have nothing to complain about. I do not suffer excessively, for I do not suffer consistently, it does not pile up, at least I do not feel it for the time being, and the degree of my suffering is far less than the suffering that is perhaps my due.

Ein Buch muß die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns.

I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face

What do I have in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself, and really ought to go stand myself perfectly still in a corner, grateful to be able to breathe.