Quotes About Self-awareness

Even to yourself.

Al subir al ring, el púgil más preparado es el que ha intentado conocer a su adversario. Sobre todo si eres tú mismo.

I am a baritone who thinks he's a tenor.

Truth is beauty. That can be a hard thing to say, because some things are not so attractive on the surface. But by owning up to them, we change them--just by speaking them.

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

Therapy is over when a person stops incessantly demanding that other people be different from what they are, forgives his or her parents and other begrudged former intimates, reclaims the power to make life work, and takes responsibility for doing so.

Meaninglessness is of great value. When you finally get that who you actually are is empty and meaningless, it doesn't matter to you whether you are a jerk or not. There is where your power lives.

The ultimate detachment includes detachment even from the ideal of detachment. This is the kind of thing that can make you lose your mind … and come to your senses. The

One of these games is called, "Okay, okay, I'm guilty." This game is to make it look like you have taken responsibility for yourself when you haven't. Admitting you are guilty is a great way to avoid being responsible.

Therapy doesn't always work. Sometimes when it does work, it works only for a while and then the person degenerates back to living out of more bullshit - this time about how well therapy worked - and loses whatever relearning occurred.

We learned that we needed to look in the mirror and see what others saw in us and not just what we wanted to see in ourselves.

I'm working on dialing back the charm," I said, "at least until I know what's wrong.

and four grandsons. "So I have studied all the 'ends justifying the means' type rationales. I did that here too, trying to defend my actions, but there is no way around the fact that my testimony sullied the trial. Worse, I sullied how I saw myself.

I say "very little doubt" rather than "no doubt" because, of course, I can be fooled as easily as anyone. The stupidest men are the ones who think they can't be wrong. The stupidest men are the ones who are most sure. The stupidest men are the ones who don't know what they don't know.

Somewhere in this world—in China or India or a remote section of Africa—there was probably a bigger dork than me. But I couldn't swear to that. I

Maggie's favorite phrase, something her mom in Quebec had taught her, was "You bring your own weather to the picnic." So both women smiled a lot. They both had smiles so great you sometimes forgot that they were meaningless. Maggie's

Somewhere along the way, Adam had learned to not worry about what he couldn't control, to let go. This had been a healthy thing, this ability to compartmentalize. Now he wondered whether it was an ability to let go or simply to block. He

An old Croatian proverb Adam had learned in college applied here: "The hunchback sees the hump of others—never his own.

if you are deluded and narcissistic enough to believe you should obey your gut rather than looking coldly at the facts

The stupidest men are the ones who think they can't be wrong. The stupidest men are the ones who are most sure. The stupidest men are the ones who don't know what they don't know.

An old Croatian proverb Adam had learned in college applied here: "The hunchback sees the hump of others—never his own." Three

Myron stopped himself from saying any more. He had sounded asinine enough. He just needed a moment or two to gather himself, to figure out what the next step should be. Your

Or, as Goethe summed it: "Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.