Quotes About Self-awareness

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.

Look at my glasses. I can't even see that there are any stars in the sky without them, but it's not the glasses that are doing the seeing, it's me, Madeleine. I don't think Father's eyes are seeing now, but he is. And maybe his brain isn't thinking, but a brain's just something to think through, the way my glasses are something to see through.

There's something a little humiliating about having to accept that, at fifty-one, one is naïve. I am. I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.

I've looked for an image in someone else's mirror, and so have avoided seeing myself.

When have you been most you, the very most you?

But I have to accept the fact that I am often unwise; that I am not always loving; that I make mistakes; that I am, in fact, human. And as Christians we are not meant to be less human than other people, but more human, just as Jesus of Nazareth was more human.

We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means that we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues and thanked God that he was not like other men.

If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate.

It's a stage we all go through; it takes a certain amount of living to strike the strange balance between the two errors either of regarding ourselves as unforgivable or as not needing forgiveness.

Love. That's what makes persons know who they are. You're full of love, Meg, but you don't know how to stay within it when it's not easy.

None of us likes to see himself as he must appear to others.

Meg, I give you your faults.

If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need

Women, healed and whole, will find undreamed resources in themselves.

There is no use in God's earth being upset by the things that other people do, only what you do yourself.

Ä°nsanlar?n baÅŸkalar?n? kendi kusurlar? yüzünden suçlamalar?n? çok duydum.

It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

If he hadn't lied to you, he would have been a different person than he is.' She is trying to get me to see that although I thought I loved this man very completely for exactly who he was, I was in fact blind to the man he actually was, or is.

Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

Last night I wept in a way I haven't wept for some time. I wept until I aged myself. I watched it happen in the mirror. I watched the lines arrive around my eyes like engraved sunbursts; it was like watching flowers open in time-lapse on a windowsill. The tears not only aged my face, they also changed its texture, turned the skin of my cheeks into putty. I recognized this as a rite of decadence, but I did not know how to stop it.

125. Of course, you could just take off the blindfold and say, 'I think this game is stupid and I'm not playing it anymore.' And it must also be admitted that hitting the wall or wandering off in the wrong direction or tearing off the blindfold is as much a part of the game as is pinning the tail on the donkey.