Self-awareness Quotes

It seems like I want them to like me for my mind, anyway," she said, "so why not let them go straigh...

Certainly it would be wonderful if we all knew exactly who we were.

You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.

He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everybody he loved.

It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don’t mean gaining “self-kn...

He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular ...

It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don’t mean gaining “self-kn...

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

Then, learn from me not to judge by appearances: I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom ...

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is...

It's not always a question of you changing your mind. I think very often your mind changes you. You ...

We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the out...

Look, there is nothing you can say about this show that I don't already know

Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without ...

I don't know why I resented it so intensely to have them think of me as something newly minted in th...

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to ...

As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the pe...

The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.

The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece...

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneas...

There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissati...

Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activ...

Would he ever come back? He wondered. The water filled his ears with its own rush, and he was comfor...

And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishmen...

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and ...

Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remark...

The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can e...

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.

self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

I am openly prideful, secretly judgemental, and cowardly in conflict.

We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitti...

Toadstool mandarins are a form of toxic jellyfish whose tentacles are loaded with entheogenic venom....

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

In brief: consciousness is a phenomenon in the zone of evolution. This world lights up to itself onl...

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly...

Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds its...

He has the feeling that merely by being alive he is blocking his own way. From this sense of hindran...

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see...

I don't have to say so because people can see it from leagues away. I am ugly, shy and anachronistic...

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't ex...

How can I be strong when I do not know my own mind? I am lost.""That's not true. You are not lost. I...

I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea...

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his ...

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to li...

For awakened human beings, there was no obligation—none, none, none at all—except this: to search fo...

But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always ...

Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap...

I'm deeper than the shit I'm in and I don't really give a damn.

Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we lo...

We're freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I'm a twenty-five-year-old freak and she's a twenty-one-y...

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselv...

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge...

Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and colle...

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves.

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, enc...

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to des...

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and soph...

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you ar...

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been t...

It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the major...

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your se...

Maybe from as early as when you're five or six, there's been a whisper going at the back of your hea...

You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lie...

I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to...

The Way to do is to be.

the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simpl...

Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to pu...

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it p...

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault o...

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.

Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull p...

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ...

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened

For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is...

My own sense is that the acquisition of self knowledge has been made difficult by the modern world. ...

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?...

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral a...

In judging our progress as individual we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's socia...

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious fe...

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for ...

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her moo...

In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began ...