Quotes About Self-awareness

You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn't? she thought.

I felt myself a new species of child. Not a boy (most assuredly) but neither a (mere) girl.

I see the pain I've caused. I see the man I could have been, and the man I was, and then everything is bright and new and keen with love and I sweep through Sam's body, trying to change him, trying to shard, and feeling only hate and hate, solid as stone.

But, as applied to me, this teaching did not satisfy.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

The trouble with this country," the late John Berryman once told fellow poet James Dickey, "is that a man can live his entire life without knowing whether or not he is a coward.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.

He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.

I can only speak to myself. (Bush, George W.; 2005).

I can only speak to myself. (Bush, 2005).

They felt neither joy, nor sadness, nor even boredom, but they did wonder sometimes if they still existed, if they really existed. They drew no special satisfaction from asking this deceptive question, beyond this: on occasions, it seemed to them, in a muddled and murky way, that the life they were leading was appropriate, adequate and, paradoxically, necessary

I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.

I don't think I am green. It's true I only know what I've read in books, but I've read a great many books

nothing makes one so cross as knowing one is in the wrong, does it?

You think I've got brains?' he said, awed. 'Not confusing me with Charlie?' 'Charlie?' uttered Miss Charing contemptuously. 'I daresay he has book-learning, but you have—you have address, Freddy!' 'Well, by Jove!' said Mr Standen, dazzled by this new vision of himself.

I too have been badly deceived in myself, he said, shaking his head. Would you believe it?—I had no notion that I was such a monster of inhumanity as I have proved myself to be

But perhaps I might feel strange, and unlike myself. It wouldn't be comfortable, not to be acquainted with myself.

I daresay you know how it is when one falls into a fit of the dismals; one says things one doesn't mean.

Tiffany never consciously deviated from the truth, but since she saw everything only as it affected herself the truth was apt to become somewhat distorted.

I am unreasonable! I know it, but don't tell me so, for I cannot bear it!

But I fancy I rather more sense than you give me credit for and also my dear I know you a trifle better than you do yourself. You will tell me that I am impertinent but so it is, little though you may think it.

If we are unable to tolerate ourselves when we are alone, how can we expect anyone else to be enriched by our company? Before we can have a solid relationship with another, we must have a relationship with ourselves. We are challenged to learn to listen to ourselves. We have to be able to stand alone before we can truly stand beside another.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.