Quotes About Self-awareness

When another blames you or hates you, or when men say anything injurious about you, approach their poor souls, penetrate within, and see what kind of men they are. You will discover that there is no reason to be concerned that these men have this or that opinion about you.

Uvježbaj se da misliš samo one misli koje odgovaraju na neo?ekivano pitanje: ''Što ti se sada mota po mislima?'' kako bi, trenuta?no i iskreno mogao re?i o ?emu je rije?, o ovome ili onome, i tako svojim odgovorom dati izravne dokaze o tome da su sve tvoje misli neskrivene i dobrohotne, misli društvena bi?a koje ne mari za hirove užitaka ili ve?a zadovoljstva, za suparništvo, zlo?u, sumnju ili sve ono što bi, priznanjem, izvuklo rumen na obraze.

Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.

Your childish clarity faded, and you started listening to the world around you more closely than you did to yourself. The world was persuasive and loud, and so you resigned yourself to conforming to its demands.

And I took it for granted that he knew all of these things about himself.

A person who knows himself to be the divinely begotten Son of God (and even the second person of the Trinity) and who has divine knowledge and power is not a real human being. Because he is more than human, he is not fully human.

Selfishness seldom has to do with reaching for the biggest piece of cake on the plate; rather, it is preoccupation with our selves.

to use language from Frederick Buechner, we live our lives from the outside in rather than from the inside out.24 Our fall into exile is very deep. The biblical picture of the human condition is bleak. Separated and self-concerned, the self becomes blind, self-preoccupied, prideful; worry-filled, grasping, miserable; insensitive, angry, violent; somebody great, or only okay, or "not much." In the dark, we are blind and don't see.

Nemo est qui tibi sapientius suadere possit te ipso: numquam labere, si te audies. ( Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you'll never go wrong. )

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Zoals de dwaasheid nooit tevreden is, zelfs niet als haar wensen worden vervuld, zo is de wijsheid steeds tevreden met wat voorhanden is, en heeft nooit onvrede met zichzelf.

the man to open his ears widest to flatterers is he who first flatters himself and is fondest of himself.

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.

When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords fail.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.

This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I'm supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions, responsibilities, achievements, experience and wisdom. I'm supposed to be a person of substance.

The inventor of the mirror did few of us any favours: we must have been happier before we knew what we looked like.