Quotes About Self-awareness

I don't want to end up like my mom. That's my biggest fear in life.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.

Make a mental note of your mistakes so that you don't repeat them again.

Sometimes it's wise to look at life through your own lenses,

Choose what makes you feel right within, not for others.

Never mind negativity, but mind your positive attributes that people don't know about you.

Trying to run from problems, is the same as trying to run away from our own shadow.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Ich weiss, dass ich nichts weiss, und kaum das.

Man is everywhere dangerously unaware of himself. We really know nothing about the nature of man, and unless we hurry to get to know ourselves we are in dangerous trouble.

Vi läser av varandra genom ögonen, och anatomiskt är ögonen en förlängning av hjärnan. När vi fångar någons blick ser vi in i en tankevärld. En människa utan ögon känns oroande av det enkla skälet att ögonen är dörrarna till jaget. (49)

How she loved you, her bubeleh, her boychik, her darling, but there was something cloying in that love, something theatrical and selfish, and you knew it and, as soon as you were big enough, you kept her at a safe distance.

It appears that time has turned that young woman, who imagined herself a romantic heroine, into something of a comic character, but I remain fond of her. We are relatives, after all.

Within weeks of my arrival in New York, I was someone else, not because there had been a revolution in my psychological makeup or any trauma. It was simply this: people saw me in a light in which I had never been seen before.

I was glib, even witty, or at least that's how I imagined myself.

But the worst was that as time wore on, I became more and more afraid of myself, or perhaps more conscious of the fear I have always had - a fear that within me is some danger I can't name.

She talked as if she were observing her own sentences...

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

When you do not know how to handle yourself, where is the need to produce another life.