Quotes About Self-awareness

the healthy self, however, must always be vigilant against the laziness of the sick self that still lurks within us.

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.

We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it but we must simultaneously examine the examiner. Psychiatrists are taught this in their training and know that it is impossible to realistically understand the conflicts and transferences of their patients without understanding their own transferences and conflicts.

The reason for this is that the problem of distinguishing what we are and what we are not responsible for in this life is one of the greatest problems of human existence.

The feeling of being valuable—"I am a valuable person"—is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

we are incapable of loving another unless we love ourselves, just as we are incapable of teaching our children self-discipline unless we ourselves are self-disciplined.

M. Scott Peck

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

This transformation occurred by virtue of the fact that Orestes was willing to accept responsibility for his mental illness.

There was nothing wrong with being understanding and sympathetic. It had been instilled in him all his life... Be a good Christian, son. Put others needs before your own. It had been so instilled in him, in fact, that once he was away from home, he'd had to learn it was also okay to speak about your own needs and say what you wanted, too. The trick was to somehow find a balance between the two.

We are almost always less or more competent than we believe ourselves to be. The unconscious,however, knows who we really are.

He had found in himself the perfect, undeniable case of insanity. He possessed wisdom, patience, tolerance, truthfulness, loyalty, and moral fortitude—all the qualities that go to make an utter madman.

Eu amava Capitu! Capitu amava-me! E as minhas pernas andavam, desandavam, estacavam, trémulas e crentes de abarcar o mundo. Esse primeiro palpitar da seiva, essa revelação da consciência a si própria, nunca mais me esqueceu, nem achei que lhe fosse comparável qualquer outra sensação da mesma espécie. Naturalmente por ser minha. Naturalmente também por ser a primeira.

Deus te livre, leitor, de uma ideia fixa; antes um argueiro, antes uma trave no olho.

Veja se posso amar ou pretender: primeiro, não sou bonito (...); segundo: não sou curioso, e o amor, se o reduzirmos às suas verdadeiras proporções, não passa de uma curiosidade; terceiro: não sou paciente, e nas conquistas amorosas a paciência é a principal virtude; quarto, finalmente: não sou idiota, porque, se com todos estes defeitos pretendesse amar, mostraria a maior falta de razão (Linha reta e linha curva)

Não consultes dicionários. Casmurro não está aqui no sentido que eles lhe dão, mas no que lhe pôs o vulgo de homem calado e metido consigo. Dom veio por ironia, para atribuir-me fumos de fidalgo. Tudo por estar cochilando!

Percebo, percebo! Tendes a volúpia suprema da vaidade, que é a vaidade da modéstia.

Il n'est point d'autre moyen de se garder de la flatterie que de donner à entendre aux gens qu'ils ne t'offensent pas à te dire le vrai; mais quand chacun peut te dire le vrai, on cesse de te respecter.

It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.

Once you understand a wound it loses its power to destroy you.

The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about, Charles Wallace said. Why should I disillusion them?

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts? I do face facts, Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.