Quotes About Self-awareness

a man cannot win if he's at the same time a horse and a jockey.

Not a single opinion poll this week! Never mind! We'll try to guess our own intentions by ourselves...

Se foutre la paix ne consiste donc pas du tout à se négliger, mais à accepter la complexité et la nuance du monde. C'est accepter les intempéries qu'un perfectionniste vit comme une attaque. C'est arrêter de s'autoévaluer et de s'autovérifier en permanence.

Yet understanding one's own nature is often a first step to personal growth. All this psychological crap was making me irritable.

My fault? It could be. So much was my fault, the result of my actions or decisions. Sabina

Am I more than you bargained for yet? I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear Cause that's just who I am this week

Am I more than you bargained for? Been dying to tell you anything, you want to hear, cause' that's just who I am this week.

I'm not sure if those earlier issues have really been resolved or if they've just been censored from the internet. After experiencing so much censorship, I have come to grow numb about the whole thing. Yesterday I said that we are our own worst enemies; this process of becoming enemies of ourselves probably begins with that feeling of numbness.

People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Frederick Douglass saw the same connection. When his master heard that young Frederick was reading well, he was furious, saying, "Learning will spoil the best nigger in the world. If he learns to read the Bible it will forever unfit him to be a slave." Douglass recalled that he "instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

The average person thinks he isn't.

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

Song of the Barren Orange Tree" Woodcutter. Cut out my shadow. Free me from the torture of seeing myself fruitless. Why was I born among mirrors? The daylight revolves around me. And the night herself repeats me in all her constellations. I want to live not seeing self. I shall dream the husks and insects change inside my dreaming into my birds and foliage. Woodcutter. Cut out my shadow. Free me from the torture

No se siente la verdad cuando está dentro de una misma.

We're all curious about what might hurt us.

He renunciado a la difícil conquista de saber cómo era yo en aquellos tiempos y cómo soy ahora, en qué cosas era mejor o peor antes que ahora.

The problem is that we create an image of ourselves in our childhood and youth (often at the urging of parents, siblings or friends), and subsequently attempt to graft reality onto this image. More often than not, the graft doesn't take and the result is bewilderment and disappointment.

Para qué callar lo que siento si, aunque me calle, no voy a dejar de sentirlo?

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

My past is everything I failed to be.

Desengáñate: de una cosa -aunque sea la mejor cosa del mundo- sólo pueden sacarse...cosas. Nadie es capaz de dar lo que no tiene, ¿verdad?, ni mucho menos nada puede dar más de lo que es.

Éramos demasiado nosotros mismos para mentirnos en ficciones.

Por primera vez podía verme a mí mismo como a otro.