Quotes About Self-awareness

Wow . . . she's gotten older"—a realization that somehow never includes me, as if I am for some reason immune to aging. It isn't until I pass by a mirror and catch sight of my own composting carcass that I'm forced to fess up to reality. Hate when that happens.

To know one's limit is to know how to sacrifice oneself.

My freedom is not and cannot be something that I observe as I observe an outward fact; rather it must be something that I decide, moreover, without appeal. It is beyond the power of anyone to reject the decision by which I assert my freedom and this assertion is ultimately bound up with the consciousness that I have of myself.

March 7th It is a serious error, if I am not mistaken, to treat time as a mode of apprehension. For one is then forced to consider it also as the order according to which the subject apprehends himself, and he can only do this by breaking away from himself, as it were, and mentally severing the fundamental engagement which makes him what he is.

El yo puede ser muy aburrido.

while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.

i wasnt frightened of it. The gray death wasn't a monster or a spider i could see and shiver over. It was invisible. If I caught it would be somewhere within me and while the outside world was full of danger I knew my interior I was certain I could oust an intruder there.

There was a great deal of energy and contentment to be gotten simply from not living a lie.

Chúng ta không th? d?y b?o ai b?t c? Ä'i?u gì. Chúng ta ch? có th? giúp h? phát hi?n ra nh?ng gì còn ti?m ?n bên trong con ng??i h?.

Man kann einen Menschen nichts lehren. Man kann ihm nur helfen, es in sich selbst zu finden!

La mayor sabiduría que existe es conocerse a uno mismo.

The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.

Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

When I work, I wear pants usually because I want to be comfortable. I wear dark colors, especially in winter, because I don't want to concentrate on myself but on what I'm working on. Because I really, really love clothes, I can start to think too much about myself. It's distracting.

When I was in grade school, I had a little duet act with a guy who was a beautiful singer, and somebody recorded it on a wire machine. They played it back for us, and I went, 'I hear Donald, but what is that other ugly voice?' It turned out to be me, of course.

I've learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways; the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit.

I have never been wired to be front and centre of spotlight and ready to dance.

There's something really earnest inside me all the time. It's not a cool or fun way to be. Sometimes I would like to experience being someone who's not wired the way I'm wired.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.