Quotes About Self-awareness

When would he learn humility?

We can only do what we can live with.

The mind is where the ego rules. The soul resides in the heart.

Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.

Sometimes, one yearns for something.For the ultimate in happiness. I yearn for it,and don't know where to look for it any longer. And I don't know if I would recognize it if I found it. And the longer I look, the more selfish I grow.For I think only of my own happiness. i think I have lost the ability to make someone else happy. If I ever had it. And I suppose we can never be happy unless we can also give happiness.

I believe," he said gently, "we all have a perfect right to make ourselves unhappy if that is what we freely choose. But I am not sure we have the right to allow our own unhappiness to cause someone else's. The trouble with life sometimes is that we are all in it together.

If she allowed herself to wallow in self-pity, she would be in danger of becoming one of those habitual moaners and complainers everyone avoided.

no hay objeto de estudio más digno del hombre que el hombre mismo».

It is that the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius, and

Let me see—what are my other shortcomings? I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

La mediocridad no conoce nada más allá de ella, pero el talento instantáneamente reconoce a los genios.

La mediocridad no reconoce nada por encima de sí misma, pero el talento reconoce al genio al instante

No hay objeto de estudio más digno del hombre que el hombre mismo.

Svaka budala na?e još ve?u budalu od sebe koja joj se divi!

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.

Te veel kennis over onszelf doen we op uit de blikken van anderen. Wij vertrouwen eerder op hoe wij gezien worden dan op hoe wij onszelf zien.

Perhaps he did not know himself - like all these intellectual cynics...

When he reads Kierkegaard, he is not moved by what he reads, he is moved by himself reading Kierkegaard–but he is blissfully unaware of it.

The fact is: I no longer believe in my infallibility. That is why I am lost.

Trace the contours of your face with a soapy finger on the bathroom mirror (it is easily done by closing one eye). There is a shock waiting: the image which looked life-size has shrunk to half-size, like a headhunter's trophy. A person walking away does not seem to become a dwarf -- as he should; a black glove looks just as black in the sunlight as in shadow -- though it should not;