Quotes About Self-awareness

When I was twenty, I thought I knew everything there was to know. By thirty, I realised I didn't know shit. I had spent ten years learning things that I would then spend ten years having to unlearn.

Because it's yourself you really ruin, when you make someone else suffer

Being in company forces one to jostle, hamper, walk at the wrong speed for others. When walking it's essential to find your own basic rhythm, and maintain it. The right basic rhythm is the one that suits you, so well that you don't tire and can keep it up for ten hours. But it is highly specific and exact. So that when you are forced to adjust to someone else's pace, to walk faster or slower than usual, the body follows badly.

para saber lo que hay que hacer, pregúntate, a propósito de la acción que te propones: «¿Podría hacerla otra persona en mi lugar?». Si la respuesta es sí, abandónala, a menos que sea absolutamente indispensable.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Dime lo que lees y te diré quien eres; eso es verdad, pero te conoceré mejor si me dices lo que relees".

Cuanto más me inclinaba a creer en mi importancia, más me dabas tú la sensación de mi nada...

La dominante característica de mi naturaleza, y que hubiera interesado a otra mujer distinta de ti, es mi espantosa lucidez. Esta habilidad en engañarse a uno mismo, que ayuda a vivir a la mayor parte de los mortales, me ha faltado siempre a mí.

No les acontece a muchos hombres hallar en la realidad, al alcance de su vista, ese mundo que la mayoría no descubre más que en sí mismos, cuando tienen el valor y la paciencia de acordarse.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

True wisdom would be the ability to live without this scenery, to be the same person even at the bottom of a well. But that, it has to be said, is not so easy.

Los rasgos de personalidad se caracterizan por tanto por la forma habitual de percibir nuestro entorno y a nosotros mismos, así como las maneras habituales de comportarse y reaccionar.

I know all except myself.

The pleasure of being - a forgotten pleasure not even known to so many blind humans - that thought so sweet, that happiness so pure, "I am, I live, I exist," could bring happiness all by itself if one remembered it, if one enjoyed it, if one treasured it as befits its worth.

I'm glad we're free, even if we do stupid things with the freedom sometimes. Maybe sometimes there isn't a right thing to do. Maybe there's just lots of wrong answers, and you have to pick one you can bear – something that doesn't break who you are.

All her life, Neverfell had suffered the dull, embarrassed ache of the knowledge that she was always the maddest person in the room. Funnily enough, the realization that this was probably no longer the case did not make her feel better at all.

She was not undamaged, however, and she knew it. No food or drink had passed her lips, but she had drunk deep of the Truth, and now it could not be flushed out of her system with bitter cordials, or washed from her skin, or picked out of her hair.

I'm a monster too. And they probably can't help it either.

I do not know," said Dr Quick, "It is a blow to my vanity to consider the possibility that I am nothing but a bundle of thoughts, feelings and memories, given life by somebody else's mind. But then again, so is a book.

The Great Outside that had filled Neverfell's thoughts had noticed her and judged her. It had found her wanting. No, worse than that, it had screamed in horror and disgust and fled from her.

To argue otherwise was to lie to oneself.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.