Quotes about Self-awareness

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

The time when, most of all, you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.

We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the maker of his life, his reward, his punishment.

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice; but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable, but that I was not very lovable myself.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.