Quotes About Self-awareness

My limits know me well enough to stay out of my way.

We ought to step out of our old, hard casing. We think that we are one kind of people, when in fact we are always creating ourselves. We are not fixed. We are constantly becoming, constantly coming into being.

Nothing is more difficult than knowing what you really think.

She understood that the truth of things was upside down. She grasped that those who thought they knew were ignorant, that those who thought they had power were powerless, and that those who thought they knew themselves were in great darkness.

Besides, you are seeking something you have already found, but don't know it. Such are the causes of unhappiness.

Su un'isola non si dimentica mai il mare, il che significa che non si dimenticano mai i propri limiti. Eppure, entro questi limiti, ogni uomo è re.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

No pienses todavía en esas cosas de remontarte mucho, que eres más pelado que un huevo—le dijo ella—

Ser consciente de la propia ignorancia es un gran paso hacia el saber.

You don't realize how narrow the space you're living in is until someone else steps inside it

Las circunstancias significan poca cosa,el carácter en cambio lo es todo;en vano rompemos con las cosas y los seres ajenos; no podemos romper con nosotros mismos. Cambiamos la situación, pero arrastramos con nosotros el tormento del que esperábamos librarnos; y como nadie puede corregirse simplemente desplazándose, uno se encuentra con que no ha hecho otra cosa que añadir remordimientos a las penas y pecados a los sufrimientos.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us.

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.

Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one.

Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.

Clean your Finger, before you point at my Spots.