Quotes About Self-awareness

I mean that the more confident people are about their beliefs, the more likely they are to be wrong. It's the ones who are so certain, so black and white, the ones who never consider that they could be wrong or that anyone else could be right, they're the ones who scare me. When you're not confident at least you keep checking what you do and asking yourself if you're on the right track.

Everyone keeps telling me that I shouldn't feel guilty—but it doesn't seem to help much. What you feel is what you feel.

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get in the bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day.

There are no things more cruel than truths about ourselves spoken to us by another that are perceived to be at least half true. Left unsaid and hidden we feel they can be changed or eradicated, in time.

People view their own behaviors as originating from amendable, situational constraints,but they view other people's behavior as originating from inherent, immutable personality traits.

It can be really exasperating to look back at your past. What's the matter with you? I want to ask her, my younger self, shaking her shoulder. If I did that, she would probably cry. Maybe I would cry, too.

Being responsible for her own happiness, she has realized, is a lonely proposition.

an education makes you good company for yourself!)

He knew he was limited, and he hated it.

You're taking time to process. You aren't making excuses. You aren't blaming

I've been smart my whole life, Angus says. And I guess I was angry that I couldn't find a way to heal myself.

Our psychological being has been severed from our biological selves for so long that we are completely cut off from our true natures.

I am ashamed of my long letters to you, but I am such a murderer of language that I have to use it all to tell anything.

Io a volte non so, quando quest'uomo è solo - chiuso al buio in una stanza, steso su un letto, uomo al mondo lui solo - io quasi non so s'io non sono, invece del suo scrittore, lui stesso.

I tell them that the only peace you find up on a mountain is the peace you bring with you.

If you are not careful your soul will wear out long before your body.

A deceptively simple blues for when you need to be brought back to earth, reminded who you are. The song opened and opened and kept on opening. You could dance to it, drop down into your pelvis, let it make you funnier, funkier, smarter, skankier, snarkier, stankier. Listen to how smart this girl is! How self-aware and funny. A step ahead of everyone else.

was so proud that night, so self-possessed, standing tall, fully inhabited. I owned myself, felt fully mine to give.

We discover that every state of consciousness arises—and can only arise—within ourselves. One and the same event can provoke one person to laughter, another to tears, while a third remains completely indifferent; all because each is merely projecting outwardly his own inward attitude, and it is only this inward attitude which provokes our response, not the external events themselves.

They make a king out of the servant and separate themselves from their true being. They force their higher self into exile, into the unconscious. The intellect causes this separation, and by means of concentration exercises and a purposeful effort to become conscious and aware, the intellect can be an instrument by which we get out of this separation and back to our true self.

As if they didn't really know that earthly life is only a journey between being born into the body and leaving it at death, whereas the self is the same in every living creature. Only the body can have a 'lineage'. The level on which a person stands is determined only by the level of his own intelligence.

I'm like a doll, she thought. I'm not real. As she sat at dinner with her family, this sense of unreality became almost frightening.

She knew, as all other people know, what lay within herself, how different she was from every one else who had ever lived, how interesting she was, both in her qualities and her experiences, a thing true of every one; and yet how impossible it is to make others see it!