Quotes About Self-awareness

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

Le plus grand secret pour le bonheur, c'est d'être bien avec soi.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

One of the greatest Reasons why so few People understand themselves, is, that most Writers are always teaching Men what they should be, and hardly ever trouble their heads with telling them what they really are.

En fait, pour bâtir un couple, il faut être quatre : un homme plus sa part de féminité, une femme plus sa part de virilité. Deux êtres complets ne recherchent plus chez l'autre ce qui leur manque. Ils peuvent s'associer sans fantasmer sur une femme idéale ou un homme idéal puisqu'ils les ont déjà trouvés en eux, déclame mon compagnon de célestitude.

The marks of philosophy are reflection and heightened self-awareness, not maximal transcendence of the human perspective. . . . There is no cosmic point of view, and therefore no test of cosmic significance that we can either pass or fail.

They knew that Pascal's room, Thoreau's hut, and especially their own den was a dark chamber, an unhealthy space full of resentment; they knew that one is nothing when alone, that one thinks most often of nothing at all, and that hell is not other people, but the self.

Megan should have been grateful and accepted her cute status, what girl doesn't want to be told how lovely she is, how special? except it felt wrong, even at a young age, something in her realized that her prettiness was supposed to make her compliant, and when she wasn't, when she rebelled, she was letting down all those invested in her being adorable

She came home from work to the noise of fellow youngsters having fun through the partition walls Exacerbating her aloneness Yet she knew this was exactly what she needed Solititude To register what she was feeling Forcing herself to become deaf to all sound except her own

she misses the people they used to be, when they were all discovering themselves with no idea how much they might change in the years to come

Nzinga then launched into the racial implications of stepping on a black doormat rather than over it, of not wearing black socks (why would you step on your own people?), and don't ever use black garbage bags, she instructed, as for blackmail, blackball, black mood, black magic, black sheep, black-hearted, I never wear black underpants, for example, why crap on myself? I'm surprised you all don't know this already

If we accept that we cannot change other people, or that we cannot change how we ourselves might be contributing to an unhealthy dynamic, then surely the solution is to make a bid for freedom?

Tenho cá para mim que no fundo nada pode surpreender quem se permite ouvir nos outros a própria voz.

I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I tried to tell myself that I had known nothing of what she had done when I chose her. I tried to talk myself into the state of innocence in which children love their parents. But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. ...And perhaps we are responsible even for the love we feel for our parents.

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

The more you learn, the more you know that you're not so hot.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

One must live well to know what living is.