Quotes About Self-awareness

Force yourself to explain it and you create lies.

You're you , you see, and nobody else. You are you, right?

If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it's like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It's hard to go back to the original shape.

what hurt me was actually me, myself. In the midst of that continuing, unsettled silence my feelings, like a heavy pendulum, a razor-sharp blade

Once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality.

I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don't trust it, I have to investigate the source.

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness? I wouldn't know, I said. Nor would we, said the scientists.

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow

I basically have nothing to offer to others. If you think about it, I don't even have anything to offer myself.

That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. I'd hate to think they were obvious to anybody else. Especially at the swimming pool in the summer.

My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. It's like I was raising chickens inside me. The chickens lay eggs and the eggs hatch into other chickens, which then lay eggs. Is this any way to live a life? What with all these faults I've got going, I have to wonder. Sure, I get by. But in the end, that's not the question, is it?

I know exactly what I'm doing, but I just can't stop. That's my greatest weakness.

I'm human, after all. I was hurt. But whether it was a lot or a little I can't say.

I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.

I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

I'm safe inside this container called me.

The most frightening thing in the world is our own self.

No te compadezcas de ti mismo. Eso sólo lo hacen los mediocres.-Nagasawa

Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed

It might not be perfect, but the fundamental stance I adopted with regard to my home was to accept it, problems and all, because it was something I myself had chosen. If it had problems, these were almost certainly problems that had originated within me.

All you have to do is wait. Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're too talented, their schedules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair.

You need to come face-to-face with the past, not as some naive, easily wounded boy, but as a grown-up, independent professional. Not to see what you want to see, but what you must see. Otherwise you'll carry around that baggage for the rest of your life.

No hay más remedio que ser lo más honesto posible con uno mismo. Ser honesto y, al menos, vivir con cierta libertad. No sé si te será de gran ayuda, pero es lo único que te puedo decir.