Quotes About Self-awareness

Kada iznevjerite sami sebe, kada govorite neistine i živite laž, slabite svoj karakter. Ako imate slab karakter, nevolje ?e vas pomesti kada se pojave, a neizbježno je da se pojave. Skrivat ?ete se, ali ne?ete se više imati kamo skriti. A onda ?ete se zate?i kako radite užasne stvari.

After all, if you're not the leading man in your own drama, you're a bit player in someone else's—and you might well be assigned to play a dismal, lonely and tragic part

completely—and with that improvement, some progress will be made in Being itself. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

Thinking is listening to yourself. It's difficult. To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time. Then you have to let those people disagree. Thinking is an internal dialogue between two or more different views of the world.

Consider, as well, that you may be blocked in your progress not because you lack opportunity, but because you have been too arrogant to make full use of what already lies in front of you.

Then he asked himself the most difficult of questions: had he personally contributed to the catastrophe of his life? If so, how?

Qué puedes hacer entonces si no se te da muy bien pensar, si no consigues ser dos personas al mismo tiempo? Es fácil. Habla.

What are the most valuable things everyone should know?" I wrote a list of rules, or maxims; some dead serious, some tongue-in-cheek—"Be grateful in spite of your suffering," "Do not do things that you hate," "Do not hide things in the fog," and so on.

You need to know where you are, so you can start to chart your course. You need to know who you are, so that you understand your armament and bolster yourself in respect to your limitations. You need to know where you are going, so that you can limit the extent of chaos in your life, restructure order, and bring the divine force of Hope to bear on the world.

Someone living a life-lie is attempting to manipulate reality with perception, thought and action, so that only some narrowly desired and pre-defined outcome is allowed to exist.

What shall I do to strengthen my spirit? Do not tell lies, or do what you despise.

You might discover, instead, that you were just afraid and, so, pretending to be moral.

There are only two major reasons for resentment: being taken advantage of (or allowing yourself to be taken advantage of), or whiny refusal to adopt responsibility and grow up.

Simplesmente não somos ateus nas nossas ações e são as nossas ações que refletem mais precisamente as nossas crenças mais profundas – aquelas que estão implícitas, impregnadas no Ser, sob as nossas apreensões supérfluas e as atitudes articuláveis e do autoconhecimento superficial.

Life doesn't have the problem. You do.

If anything, Freud showed that we are both more immoral and more moral than we are aware of. This kind of "non-judgmentalism," in therapy, is a powerful and liberating technique or tactic—an ideal attitude when you want to better understand yourself.

Don't over-estimate your self-knowledge.

La tragedia del Ser consciente de sí mismo genera sufrimiento, un sufrimiento inevitable que a su vez causa el deseo de una satisfacción egoísta e inmediata, es decir, el deseo de aquello que resulta conveniente.

Every person is too complex to know themselves completely, and we all contain wisdom that we cannot comprehend.

To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time.

Perhaps you should also be positioning yourself for a lateral move—into another job, for example, noting as you may, "This occupation is deadening my soul, and that is truly not for me.

Pojavom samosvijesti zlo ulazi u svijet.

is necessary to lift your eyes above the horizon, to establish a transcendent goal, if you wish to cease being a puppet, under the control of things you do not understand and perhaps do not want to understand. Then

It is necessary to lift your eyes above the horizon, to establish a transcendent goal, if you wish to cease being a puppet, under the control of things you do not understand and perhaps do not want to understand.