Quotes About Self-awareness

My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

I feel we are all islands-in a common sea. We are all, in the last analysis, alone. When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

But I want first of all—in fact, as an end to these other desires—to be at peace with myself

One learns first of all in beach living the art of sheding;how little one can get along with, not how much....To say-is it necessary?-when I am tempted to add one more accumulation to my life, when I am pulled toward one more centrifugal activity. One is free, like the hermit crab, to change one's shell.

This beautiful image is to my mind the one that women could hold before their eyes. This is an end toward which we could strive - to be the still axis within the revolving wheel of relationships, obligations and activities.

I don't worry about the impression they make on other people. I am shedding pride.

Why is it so important to affirm a child? Because a child who is truly accepted by his parents and/or influencing adults can growing up learning to accept himself. Without a constant, debilitating sense of guilt and defeat, he will become at ease with himself. He'll be able to admit his own failures and weaknesses. He'll be able to forget himself and love others. He won't spend his energies worrying about what people think of him, and he won't spend his energies putting down others.

Self-pity does not become you, nor does it serve any purpose

His face crumpled a little. It was highly expressive, mirroring his thoughts and feelings more than he wished.

We perform all kinds of contortions of the mind to make a reason why it isn't really the way it looks, but we only fool the people who want to be fooled." "Maybe I knew, and forgot," he said, thinking back to his struggle to learn about himself, to piece together the evidence of what kind of a man he was, the good and the bad.

And I like their humor," Septimus went on. "They know how to laugh at themselves and each other—they like to laugh, they don't see any sin in it, or any danger to their dignity. They like to argue. They don't feel it a mortal wound if anyone queries what they say, indeed they expect to be questioned.

When Christ commanded us to love our neighbor as ourselves, the 'self' part was just as important. We forget that at a terrible price.

She would not want anyone she cared for to love a false reflection of her. After all, could there be a greater loneliness than that?

And I realized that I'd tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.

I assume I don't need an introduction.

Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul?

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

The truth is, I hate not being the first person narrator all the way through! To paraphrase David Copperfield, I don't know whether I'm the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn't I dominate it?

But he could not go up to the room as yet, and seating himself on a stone step, his head on his arms, he wept silently. Years had passed since he had shed tears, or so it seemed. Surely years since he had let them flow so copiously. And what stopped him finally was that he could hear his own crying.

I can see that you don't know your own strength in this body any more than you did in the other." "Strength? What strength! This is a weak, flopping, sloshy, repulsive collection of nerves and ganglia. Don't even mention the word 'strength.'