Quotes About Self-awareness

Antes de poder viviré con otras personas tengo que vivir conmigo mismo. La única cosa que no se rige por la regla de la mayoría es la conciencia de uno.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

It's no good living in a world at peace if your own head is at war with itself.

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When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.

What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.

What makes us the most normal, said Reiko, is knowing that we're not normal.

I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.

You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

I'm not so weird to me.

In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.

No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

To know one's own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one's own face with one's own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one's reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.

My shadow is only half of what it should be. Everyone has their shortcomings.

The thing I'm most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I'm going to do. Of not knowing what I'm doing right now

It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface, and if something happens, it'll stick its head out and say 'Hi.' You don't seem to realize that. You were made somewhere else.

Every once in a while she'll get worked up and cry like that. But that's ok. She's letting her feelings out. The scary thing is not being able to do that. Then your feelings build up and harden and die inside. That's when you're in big trouble.

My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.

I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I'm much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That's just the kind of person I am. I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.

I'm me, and at the same time not me. That's what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.