2,872 Quotes About Self-awareness

What do you find most fascinating about yourself?

Months later, in the internment camp, Mariko would tell me she believed there were two kinds of mirrors. There was the kind you looked into to see what you looked like, and then there was the kind you looked into and saw what other people thought you looked like.

. . . Wars begin and wars end. There will be peace again. We only need to hold on to who we are, deep within, so that we'll recognize ourselves on the other side when it's over.

Mi desnudez me resulta extraña. Mi cuerpo parece anticuado. ¿De verdad me ponía bañador para ir a la playa? Lo hacía, sin reparar en ello, entre los hombres, sin importarme que mis piernas, mis brazos, mis muslos y mi espalda quedaran al descubierto y alguien los viera. Vergonzoso, impúdico. Evito mirar. mi cuerpo, no tanto porque sea algo vergonzoso o impúdico, sino porque no quiero verlo. No quiero mirar algo que me determina tan absolutamente.

You have to realize when you’ve reached the limits of what you can choose to do to change the situation.

She suggested that...I should examine what I had been trying to shoot at and punch and kill for so long- whether or not I had, perhaps, denied some more gentle part of my nature, and if so, what had it cost me. "And don't get a tattoo for your forehead," she said, smiling. "It's entirely unnecessary." As proof, she held her hands in front of her. Wiggled her fingers and smiled. Our being human made us tragic and comic both, she has said; the gods both laughed and wept.

Don't feel bad for wanting what you want and going for it.

YOU NEED TO CONSCIOUSLY DIRECT YOURSELF OR YOUR SURROUNDING WILL TAKE CHARGE TO DRIVE YOURSELF.

The relationship we have with ourselves sets the foundation for every other relationship we have.