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Quotes About Self-awareness

Quizás comprendiste ya que los fantasmas son invisibles porque los llevamos dentro.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Each of us has more virtues than he is credited with, but success alone brings them to view, perhaps because then we may be expected to cease practicing them.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Ce matin l'idée m'est venue pour la première fois que mon corps, ce fidèle compagnon, cet ami plus sûr, mieux connu de moi que mon âme, n'est qu'un monstre sournois qui finira par dévorer son maître. Paix... J'aime mon corps ; il m'a bien servi et de toutes les façons, et je ne lui marchande pas les soins nécessaires.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Mi-am folosit cât mai bine calit??ile, am profitat chiar de pe urma defectelor, dar nu È›in cu dinadinsul s? m? las moÈ™tenire cuiva.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Sometimes one controls one's acts; one controls less often one's thoughts; one never controls one's dreams. I had dreams.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Cada uno de nosotros posee más virtudes de lo que se cree, pero sólo el éxito las pone de relieve, quizá porque entonces se espera que dejemos de manifestarlas.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Sans doute, se fatiguer est une façon de se dompter ; mais l'épuisement du corps finit par engourdir l'âme. Reste à savoir, Monique, si une âme inquiète ne vaut pas mieux qu'une âme endormie.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Juzga para no ser juzgado el peor de los seres, el cobarde de espíritu, perezosamente dispuesto a todo, que se niega a juzgar.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Fui solo. Poi la solitudine mi spaventò. Non si è mai del tutto soli: disgraziatamente si è sempre con se stessi.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Persoana mea se estompa pentru c? punctul meu de vedere începuse s? conteze.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Hi, my name is Sunny and I'm a bloodoholic.
~ Mari Mancusi
The things we dislike most in others are the characteristics we like least in ourselves.
~ Marian Keyes
I should have learned mindfulness, and it's too late now because it's no good learning it when you're already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I'll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement.
~ Marian Keyes
It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.
~ Marian Keyes
What is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? Why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? We are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs and if human beings were cars, we would return them for being faulty.
~ Marian Keyes
And what had this to do with eating too much and making herself sick? If what her counsellor Peggy said was true, she'd been doing that to change her mood. Now she had no way to alter her feelings, and she had to make sense of them again
~ Marian Keyes
It makes you wonder. How much you can know about a thing, a person. If you can know anything at all. Maybe no one's who we think they are. No one. Makes you doubt yourself, wonder if you even know yourself or if you've been lyin, too, along with everybody else.
~ Marianne Wiggins
Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.
~ Marianne Williamson
Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.
~ Marianne Williamson
To ask for another relationship, or another job, is not particularly helpful if we're going to show up in the new situation exactly as we showed up in the last one.
~ Marianne Williamson
There is, inside all our heads, the ego's rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.
~ Marianne Williamson
We think we're powerful because of what we've achieved rather than because of what we are.
~ Marianne Williamson
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others, we are withholding from ourselves.
~ Marianne Williamson
Course in Miracles says that everyone we meet will either be our crucifier or our savior, depending on what we choose to be to them. Focusing on their guilt drives the nails of self-loathing more deeply into our own skin. Focusing on their innocence sets us free. Since 'no thoughts are neutral,' every relationship takes us deeper into Heaven or deeper into Hell.
~ Marianne Williamson