Quotes About Self-awareness

Despite outward appearances, he hadn't gained confidence. He'd simply become desensitized to this specific type of embarrassment. He wondered if that's what all confidence was in the first place.

Whenever we think of ourselves doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is done because we choose to do it, and we make that choice because it is the one that satisfies us the most. Whatever we do for someone else we do because it fulfills a need we have.

Stop to consider why your judgement might be wrong.

For all of my success, in looking back I couldn't identify a moment when, at core, I had felt fully at home with myself. My

It was not that I felt that I'd done poorly; I just realized that I'd missed the chance to do wel..

Only when my marriage ended another decade later did I tumble to the recognition that my sister was happy, far happier than many other people who arrive in their middle years, including me.

I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me?a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.

maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore

From now on, no one rewires my mind but me.

Since I have been obliged to associate continually with other people, and observe what they do, and how they employ themselves, I have become far better satisfied with myself.

I do not pretend to aught worth knowing, I do not pretend I could be a teacher To help or convert a fellow-creature. Then, too, I've neither lands nor gold, Nor the world's least pomp or honor hold— No dog would endure such a curst existence!

In the end, you are – what you are. Set your hair in a thousand curlicues Place your feet in yard-high shoes, You'll remain forever, what you are.

Quando faltamos a nós mesmos, tudo nos falta.

Sind Götter! Wundersam eigen, Die sich immerfort selbst erzeugen, Und niemals wissen was sie sind.

Time and time again my eyes have been opened to what I am, but always too late and always to no purpose.

If some people hadn't felt obliged to repeat what is untrue simply because they had at one point maintained it, they would have turned into quite different people.

Tudo quanto se acha fora de nós parece mais belo, e todos os homens mais perfeitos do que nós. E isto é natural porque sentimos demasiado as nossas imperfeições e os outros sempre parecem possuir precisamente aquilo que nos falta.

But, alas! I feel it too sadly. I am alone the cause of my own woe, am I not? Truly, my own bosom contains the source of all my sorrow, as it previously contained the source of all my pleasure.

No one knows the extent of his powers unless he has tested them thoroughly.

I could lead the best, the happiest life if I wasn't a fool.

Children don't know why they want what they want, teachers and judges are unanimous. But that adults, just like children, tumble about in the world without knowing where they come from and where they're going – that they act in accordance with their avowed aims as little as children do – that they can be ruled by cookies and cakes and lashes just as easily as children – this no one wants to believe, though it seems to me so palpably true.

O kadar çok kendimle u?ra??yorum, yüre?imde öyle f?rt?nalar esiyor ki, di?er insanlar? kendi hallerinde b?rakmay? ye?liyorum; ke?ke beni de kendi halime b?rakabilseler.

der Mensch ist dem Menschen das Interessanteste und sollte ihn vielleicht ganz allein interessieren. Alles andere, was uns umgibt, ist entweder nur Element, in dem wir leben, oder Werkzeug, dessen wir uns bedienen. Je mehr wir uns dabei aufhalten, je mehr wir daraf merken und teil daran nehmen, desto schwaecher wird das Gefuehl unsers eignen Wertes und das Gefuehl der Gesellschaft.

No nation gains the power of judgment except it can pass judgment on itself. But to attain this great privilege takes a very long time.