Quotes About Self-awareness

The cold hard fact of courage is that it has to spring from within. Because it's opposite, fear, lives inside of us as well...fear really is alive, even when it's just sitting there, free from its influence. Still we are aware how dangerous it is. How debilitating it is, how crippling and how it stops us some times.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.

And my last words shall be these – that it is only from the inmost silences of the heart that we know the world for what it is, and ourselves for what the world has made us.

If I ever thought of myself as a man of thirty-five it was a visualization of dreary decrepitude.

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

No one believes in his own death.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

I don't know who it was, but someone, maybe or maybe not Henry James, said that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who upon seeing someone else suffering think, That could happen to me, and those who think, That will never happen to me. The first kind of people help us to endure, the second kind make life hell.

It is said that most people judge themselves too harshly. I disagree. If they judged themselves harshly enough, they would come to the conclusion that they're the last person on Earth to be judging anyone.

Todas las fotografías son espejos de lo que fuimos, pero no de lo que somos ni de lo que seremos.

Talking to yourself is the last subterfuge.

the unexamined life is not worth living. It has insisted on the power of rational reflection to winnow out bad elements in our practices, and to replace them with better ones.

Basilevitch persuaded Cruyff to let him invest his hard-earned money in a variety of ventures, the most disastrous of which was a pig farm.70 Looking back in 2015, the victim laughed at himself: "Who could imagine that Johan Cruyff had gone into pig-rearing? I ended up saying to myself, 'Ditch the pigs. Your thing is football.' "71

What angers us in another person is more often than not an unhealed aspect of ourselves. If we had already resolved that particular issue,we would not be irritated by its reflection back to us.

Would you really have...?" said Julien. "Almost certainly," I said. "I have deep-seated problems with authority figures." "But you are one!" "I know! I can only assume the universe has a really mean sense of humour.

I'm not crazy. I know what I'm doing. You're just jealous because the voices only speak to me.

Sometimes amateurs believe they are professionals, but professionals never believe they are amateurs.

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment—we are all defined by something we can't change.

She checked herself in the mirror. She was a roadmap of violence.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

the scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed .

Should I tell him I'm not afraid of being hurt? I'm afraid of not being in control.