Quotes About Self-awareness

If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!

I had developed, early on, the habit of low expectations, and of letting my life be directed by whatever person happened to come along who seemed to know better than I did what they were doing.

I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.

Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

if I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all the flaws, chips, and cracks disappear I will be the cup that stands on the shelf and is never used

It's distressing when intellect can't detect its own defects.

Las personas realmente inteligentes dudan sobre todo y sobre todos, pero por encima de todo dudan de ellos mismos.

Es más fácil no hacerse mucho daño haciéndose un poquito de daño.

Quizás en eso consiste crecer: en darte cuenta de lo gilipollas que eras.

Kegemteraan. En malayo, la alegría de tropezar. El sentimiento simultáneo de placer y desconsuelo cuando sabes que has hecho algo que no deberías.

por saber quiénes eran y cuál era su lugar en el mundo, esta

Maturitatea aduce cu sine iluzia pernicioas? a controlului, ?i s-ar putea chiar s? depind? de ea.

Pedir perdón no es una varita mágica que se agita y borra de golpe nuestros errores.

Permite al pánico entrar tan sólo cuando no hay nadie para juzgarla.

Donde el entendimiento no ve más allá de uno mismo

Tengo muy claro que lo que estoy cometiendo es un error muy grande. Que saber demasiado es incompatible con la felicidad.

yo no soy yo soy este que va a mi lado sin yo verlo; que, a veces, voy a ver, y que, a veces, olvido. El que calla, sereno, cuando hablo, el que perdona, dulce, cuando odio, el que pasea por donde no estoy, el que quedará en pié cuando yo muera.

I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other times I forget; who remains calm and silent while I talk, and forgives, gently, when I hate, who walks where I am not, who will remain standing when I die.

Habría que escribir un libro útil, al alcance de todos, de instrucciones para la derrota. Eso... Porque yo no le puedo enseñar a nadie a ganar al ajedrez ni a nada. Tendría que ser una especie de recetario del perdedor vocacional.

Cocky nerds. My wife and I always talk about it. It's people who think they don't think ill of themselves --they actually think that there's something special about themselves but no one's noticed it... And that's what makes them interesting. They have an air of superiority as they're getting pummeled.

To be able to see the flaws in your own work is a gift.

Yeah, I know. I was a jerk. An idiot. You can't say anything to me that I haven't already said to myself.

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.