Quotes About Self-awareness

You're a jewel of unquantifiable worth. Yes! that's just who you are. I mean, you worth so much. Thus, you've got to appreciate/value yourself if you've been belittling yourself.

I was willing to be anything people told me to be. I didn't mind that I was dying inside because I didn't know how to live any other way. But how do you learn to breathe, then opt to be suffocated day in and day out

Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job...

I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.

I know that my birth is fortuitous, a laughable accident, and yet, as soon as I forget myself, I behave as if it were a capital event, indispensable to the progress and equilibrium of the world.

No one has lived so close to his skeleton as I have lived to mine: from which results an endless dialogue and certain truths which I manage neither to accept nor to reject.

Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.

Once we appeal to our most intimate selves, once we begin to labor and to produce, we lay claim to gifts, we become unconscious of our own gaps. No one is in a position to admit that what comes out of his own depths might be worthless. "Self-knowledge"? A contradiction in terms.

Am avut în toat? viaÅ£a mea o pretenÅ£ie extraordinar?, de a fi omul cel mai lucid pe care l-am cunoscut.

Nu cunosc pe nimeni mai inutil ÅŸi mai inutilizabil ca mine. E un fapt pe care ar trebui s?-l accept pur ÅŸi simplu,f?r? s? m? consider cîtuÅŸi de puÅ£in mîndru pentru asta. Dac? nu va fi aÅŸa, conÅŸtiinÅ£a inutilit??ii mele nu-mi vaservi la nimic.

Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection.

Singur?tatea nu te înva?? c? eÈ™ti singur, ci singurul.

Misli su se nakratko zaljubile u postojanje pa smo ponosni što jesmo. I naši koraci, lišeni sanjala?ke stidljivosti, kaljaju sjene, gaze?i ih samouvjereno i sigurno. Trenutak budnosti, samo trenutak, i mreže pri proste stvarnosti pucaju pa možemo vidjeti što smo: iluzije vlastite misli.

Règle d'or : laisser une image incomplète de soi...

Daca vreun om s-a devorat pe el insusi,acela sunt eu.

Pentru a sc?pa de prea multe gînduri îngrozitoare eu v?d mult? lume, c?ci de-aÅŸ sta tot timpul singur, nu ÅŸtiu ce s-ar alege de mine.

Ne e fatal, întotdeauna, eul pentru care opt?m: s? porÅ£i un nume înseamn? s?-Å£i asumi un mod precis de pr?buÅŸire.

Când m? gândesc ce puÅ£in am de înv??at de la marii filozofi! Niciodat? n-am avut nevoie de Kant, de Descartes sau de Aristotel, care n-au gândit decât pentru orele noastre sigure, pentru îndoielile noastre permise. Dar m-am oprit la Iov cu pietatea unui str?nepot.

The only way to reach another person at any depth is to move toward what is deepest in yourself. In other words, to take the opposite path from the one followed by so-called generous minds.

Am devenit propriul meu elev.Nu po?i nega la infinit.La ce bun s? ponegre?ti universul?Nu m? pot converti la nimic ?i totu?i nu-mi consider via?a un e?ec.

În sufletul meu m? simt ÅŸi român ÅŸi ungur, poate mai mult ungur decât român.

Ceea ce am mai bun în mine se datoreaz? suferinÈ›ei. Nu o iubesc, dar nici nu o condamn.

Iubirea este o fug? de adev?r.Åži iubim cu adev?rat numai când nu vrem adev?rul.Pe fiinÅ£a ce o iubim o cunoaÅŸtem cu adev?rat numai dup? ce n-o mai iubim,când am devenit lucizi,clari,seci ÅŸi goi.Åži în iubire nu putem cunoaÅŸte,fiindc? persoana ce o iubim actualizeaz?,numai,un potenÅ£ial l?untric de iubire.Realitatea primordial? ÅŸi efectiv? este iubirea din noi.Pentru aceasta iubim.Iubesc iubirea din mine,iubesc iubirea mea.