Quotes About Self-awareness

Pride comes in handy for masking one's feelings?it doesn't stop you from feeling them

Qué tontas somos las mujeres! Siempre lo he pensado. Supongo que ahora dormiré con su retrato debajo de la almohada y soñaré toda la noche con él. Es terrible ver que una no es fiel a sus principio.

Do you know what you sound like?' said Mrs. Oliver. 'A computer. You know. You're programming yourself. That's what they call it, isn't it? I mean you're feeding all these things into yourself all day and then you're going to see what comes out.

He did not know the methods of Hercule Poirot. I do not run to and fro, making journeys, and agitating myself. My work is done from within—here—' he tapped his forehead significantly.

He was engaged at the moment in a careful stocktaking of his thoughts and emotions.

we all have an exaggerated idea of our own personalities and don't recognize the truth if it's sufficiently brutally portrayed...

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realize it.

La gente feliz fracasa porque se encuentra en tan buenas relaciones consigo misma, que le tiene sin cuidado todo lo demás.

Nothing. An idea that has just occurred to me. I must go home and think things out thoroughly. Do you know, I believe I have been extremely stupid—almost incredibly so." "I find that hard to believe," I said gallantly

I think now, looking back, that I was perhaps a shade intolerant.

He has a clear-cut, black and white mind, with an exact knowledge of his own feeling—and a complete disregard for outside pressure.

When one is unique, one knows it! And others share that opinion—

How many psychologists does one know to whom it might be said: Physician, heal thyself?

Nu strig. Mi-am aruncat gura.

Skammen kilar sig in där den finner fäste.

What if you know yourself too well? What if you do not like what you know?

Thinking about it now, I see this as my first serious exposure to the 'with us or against us' mentality; the mentality that forces you to self-identify as one thing despite your certain knowledge that you are a bit of this and a bit of that.

Everyone has an idea of what you need to do with your life. Only you have the facts of what you really need to do.

How you treat others is a reflection of the relationship you have with yourself

People tend to deny their personal truths because it makes them feel ugly. People will do anything to feel beautiful, even if it means having to lie to themselves

Voicing one's virtues is the deadliest of vices

We suffer not because suffering is inevitable. Suffering is inevitable when you keep trying to suppress those feelings you're afraid of. Feelings you labelled as 'bad' and believe you should have never had them in the first place. You'll never get out of this rut lest you learn to sit with the feeling no matter how horrible it feels. Give it (the feeling) the acceptance it deserves and illusion of suffering is reveled

Afghanistan is not only the mirror of the Afghans: it is the mirror of the world. 'If you do not like the image in the mirror, do not break the mirror, break your face,' says an old Persian proverb.

Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?