Quotes About Self-awareness

Perché nulla è più complicato della sincerità. Fingiamo tutti spontaneamente, non tanto innanzi agli altri, quanto innanzi a noi stessi; crediamo sempre di noi quello che ci piace credere, e ci vediamo non quali siamo in realtà, ma quali presumiamo d'essere secondo la costruzione ideale che ci siamo fatta di noi stessi.

For you can only know yourself when you strike an attitude: a statue: not alive. When one is alive, one lives and does not see himself. To know one's self is to die. The reason you spend so much time looking at yourself in that mirror, in all mirrors, is that you are not alive; you do not know how to live, you cannot or do not want to live. You want too much to know yourself; and meanwhile, you are not living.

Credi che non sorgano impeti di sentimenti anche in me? Ma io non li lascio scatenare; io li afferro, li domo; li inchiodo. Hai visto le belve e il domatore nei serragli? Ma non credere: io, che pure sono il domatore, poi rido di me perché mi vedo come tale in questa parte che mi sono imposta verso i miei sentimenti; e ti giuro che qualche volta mi verrebbe voglia di farmi sbranare da una di queste belve...

Yet everything that may be imagined of us is really possible, even though it may not be true for us. True for us? Others laugh. It is true for them. So true is it, understand, that if you do not hold fast to that reality which is bestowed upon you as your own, they are in a position to bring you to realize that the reality which they confer upon you is truer than any of your own.

If I was not for others what up to then I had believed myself to be to myself, what was I?

There is one point, however, on which I wish you would give me a little enlightenment, and that is, how you can rest quietly when you reflect that there is someone who is doing his utmost to persuade others that you are as he sees you, endeavoring firmly to establish you in the estimation of others in accordance with his judgment of you, and to prevent others from seeing and judging you in any other manner?

Todo homem é a soma não das suas decisões, mas das suas hesitações, ou do que, pensando melhor, decidiu não fazer.

Like all junkies, I guess I'd thought for a long time that my environment was the problem. My situation. The people I knew.

The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection?

The thing i call 'my mind' seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn't really know its tenants.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

He was a firm believer in that old saying, a skunk smells it own hole first.

Have yoy escaped your past? Or do your abusers still visit your dreams? I haven't escaped it, per se. You can't escape the past, or erase it like it was never there, It happened. But I learned to accept it,and even appreciate it.

Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift . . . called self-control.

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

Seeing and admitting the truth about ourselves, about our role in creating our own problems, and about how we relate to others is vital for healing.

People try to help, but all they have to work with is their theory of you. In the end they're talking to themselves.

Anyway, this is less a haircut than a personal essay about haircuts.

Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. They hate goodness because it reveals their badness; they hate love because it reveals their laziness. They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of such self-awareness.

The group made the salesman aware in no uncertain terms that his tendency to avoid problem-solving by ignoring a problem in the hope that it would go away was in itself his major problem.

This feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when one considers oneself valuable one will take care of oneself in all ways that are necessary.

Sooner or later, if they are to be healed, they must learn that the entirety of one's adult life is a series of personal choices, decisions. If they can accept this totally, then they become free people. To the extent that they do not accept this they will forever feel themselves victims.

Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within, and it is certainly because of the pain involved in a life of genuine self-examination that the majority steer away from it.