Quotes About Self-awareness

that there are many men in his image while he is himself unseen;

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

Ne te quaesiveris extra. (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

We are wiser than we know.

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide...

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can't hear what you're saying

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine

People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own, quietly and happily, but know that it is foreign to them. As they do by books, so they quote the sunset and the star, and do not make them theirs. Worse yet, they live as foreigners in a world of truth, and quote thoughts, and thus disown them. Quotation confesses inferiority

People are to be taken in very small doses. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.