Quotes About Self-awareness

Creon is not your downfall, no, you are your own.

But the hand that struck my eyes was mine, mine atone—no one else— I did it all myself! What good were eyes to me? Nothing I could see could bring me joy.

Whoever thinks that he alone possesses intelligence, the gift of eloquence, he and no one else, and character too ... such men, I tell you, spread them open - you will find them empty

Now don't, please, be quite so single-minded, self-involved, or assume the world is wrong and you are right. Whoever thinks that he alone possesses intelligence, the gift of eloquence, he and no one else, and character too... such men, I tell you, spread them open-you will find them empty.

You blame my temper but you do not see your own that lives within you; so you chide me instead." - Oedipus the King

The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most most of all.

Soren Kierkegaard

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair.

También yo he sentido la inclinación a obligarme, casi de una manera demoníaca, a ser más fuerte de lo que en realidad soy.

I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

I hated being photographed and never wanted to go on red carpets, even though they always asked me to. My place was behind the scenes. I wasn't a diva. I preferred to look at life from the outside.

I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

We never know our good or bad as we loose our judgement living with them.worst part is we don't accept who we are & hence remain confused for the rest of our life.

I can build a happy life only on the foundation of my own nature.

I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change.

I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.

No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!

Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.

The nature of life is to face us with ourselves, until we are able to handle the problems that knocked us into the dirt yesterday.

An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life.