Quotes About Self-awareness

I am what I am; I've done what I've done. I can't change any of it.

Responsável significa, naturalmente, amarrar o próprio sapato. Mas significa também não ter permissão para culpar uma infância terrível — ou uma paixão, uma tentação, uma ignorância ou uma inocência — por atos que são nossos, por ações que realmente praticamos. Pois se, na realidade, as praticamos, somos responsáveis.

some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

You're a watcher, aren't you?" Peter said. "I can tell. You watch and listen. But you know what I'm betting. The thing you can't see so clear is yourself." I was startled. Here I was, trying to come up with something to say about the weather, and he said something real. "What do you mean?" I asked. "You don't walk like a girl who knows how pretty she is, for one thing. That's a crying shame.

The gradually growing hegemony of the eye seems to be parallel with the development of Western ego-consciousness and the gradually increasing separation of the self and the world; vision separates us from the world whereas the other senses unite us with it.

The impact of the sense of vision on philosophy is well summed up by Peter Sloterdijk: 'The eyes are the organic prototype of philosophy. Their enigma is that they not only can see but are also able to see themselves seeing.

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Les gens bien portants sont des malades qui s'ignorent.

dass es völlig hirnrissig ist, etwas für andere Menschen zu tun, weil man selbst ein Mensch ist und deshalb weiß, wie wenig sie es verdienen? Kaum hat man das erkannt, bricht der Sinn jeglicher Beschäftigung in sich zusammen, und alles, was man fortan unternimmt, kann nur noch als Teil eines Spiels geschehen. Die Christen waren schlicht Pragmatiker mit ihrem 'Liebe deinen Nächsten'. Nur das 'wie dich selbst' hätten sie weglassen sollen.

Kennst du das Gefühl, wenn man plötzlich feststellt, dass es völlig hirnrissig ist, etwas für andere Menschen zu tun, weil man selbst ein Mensch ist und deshalb weiß, wie wenig sie es verdienen?

How can anger, or any other emotion or feeling, get someone to go against what they have deliberately resolved on doing? Until we have some systematic way of understanding this, we and the way we act are mysterious to ourselves.

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

My brain was so noisy and opinionated that it drowned out my heart.

You've seen what your perfect self looks like in the MEEP, so when you look in the mirror now, all you see are your flaws.

I pull out my notebook from my bag and open it. I read through all the pages I've written. It makes me feel more substantial, somehow. I do exist. I am me. This is the story of my heart.

You interrupted the daily conversation between my ears that went something like this: What is wrong with you Julia?

The foreigner's friends, aside from bleeding hearts who feel obliged to do good, could only be those who feel foreign to themselves.

Bajó los escalones sin mirar atrás, sintiendo la mirada de D'Alaqua, sabiendo que nadie tiene poder sobre el pasado, que éste no se puede cambiar y que el presente es un reflejo de lo que fuimos, sólo eso, y que sólo hay futuro si no se da ni un solo paso atrás.

It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.

Isn't it nice," the older lady said, leaning in so that only Penelope could hear her words, "to discover that we're not exactly what we thought we were?" And then she walked away, leaving Penelope wondering if maybe she wasn't quite what she'd thought she was. Maybe—just maybe—she was something a little bit more.

Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.

Isn't it nice to discover that we're not exactly what we thought we were?