self-awareness

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09887f1	I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.	empowerment flaws freedom gender identity image independence integrity realism self-awareness self-determination women	Charlotte Brontë
fec94b8	care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.	defiance empowerment independence individuality self-assurance self-awareness self-containment self-determination self-esteem self-reliance self-respect self-sufficiency self-trust solitude	Charlotte Brontë
9378bcc	When I discover who I am, I'll be free.	identity independence self-awareness self-discovery	Ralph Ellison
5c65487	I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.	empowerment flaws freedom gender ideal-woman identity image independence integrity love men realism romance self-awareness self-determination women	Charlotte Brontë
31f4cad	When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.	self-awareness self-confidence self-esteem self-love	Jodi Picoult
201d4ba	"To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I"."	self-awareness	Ayn Rand
dfa01cc	The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.	belief-in-self believe-in-yourself inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life life living self-awareness self-belief self-knowledge self-love	C. JoyBell C.
036cdcd	I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we're actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we're suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!	human humanity inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring life life-and-living living people self-awareness stars strength supernova truth	C. JoyBell C.
13d2d21	I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.	instinct knowledge search seekers self-awareness self-discovery understanding	Hermann Hesse
2912476	you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.	self-awareness	Ernest Hemingway
0f7c694	Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don't need the approval of others.	inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking self-awareness self-worth strong	Roy T. Bennett
ae26b5f	The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.	independence individuality inspirational self-assurance self-awareness self-containment self-determination self-esteem self-reliance self-respect self-sufficiency self-trust solitude ataraxy	Michel de Montaigne
e57731b	The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and it's your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who's not full of hate, who's able to smile and be carefree. So that's who I have to be.	growth inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-living inspirational-quotes inspiring learning life life-and-living living self-awareness self-belief self-love	C. JoyBell C.
cfe17f4	We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.	self-awareness	Elizabeth Gilbert
b8bf2a4	It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,	attention compassion happiness happy-life inspirational kindness life love meaning-of-life meditation money oneness peace perspective philosophy positive-attitude positive-living purpose purpose-in-life purpose-of-life purposeful-living respect revelation self-awareness self-discovery spirit spirituality wisdom	Amit Ray
d07b584	It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.	self-awareness self-discovery self-evaluation	Marianne Williamson
eebea0a	I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.	inspirational positive-attitude self-awareness self-confidence self-improvement	Muhammad Ali Jinnah
c0cd1f7	"I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself."	empowerment flaws freedom gender ideal-woman identity image independence integrity realism self-awareness self-determination women	Charlotte Brontë
864896e	I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.	fitting-in individuality inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-quotes self-awareness self-knowledge stereotypes uniqueness	C. JoyBell C.
0551a65	I am who I am; no more, no less.	inspirational self-awareness self-realization	Terry Goodkind
281f1e5	You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!	be-yourself inspirational self-awareness self-determination	John Lennon
9673fde	She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.	self-awareness self-improvement	Jane Austen
79fae87	Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again	change inspirational self-awareness	Rumi
5fa6512	We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.	inspirational love self-awareness travel	Pico Iyer
b8b5aa0	"All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously." At the time Switters had disputed her assertion. Even at seventeen, he was aware that depression could have chemical causes. "The key word here is roots," Maestra had countered. "The roots of depression. For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass. Even an old tomato like me can recall how painful, scary, and disillusioning that realization was. So, there's a tendency, then, to slip into rage and self-pity, which if indulged, can fester into bouts of depression." "Yeah but Maestra--" "Don't interrupt. Now, unless someone stronger and wiser--a friend, a parent, a novelist, filmmaker, teacher, or musician--can josh us out of it, can elevate us and show us how petty and pompous and monumentally useless it is to take ourselves so seriously, then depression can become a habit, which, in tern, can produce a neurological imprint. Are you with me? Gradually, our brain chemistry becomes conditioned to react to negative stimuli in a particular, predictable way. One thing'll go wrong and it'll automatically switch on its blender and mix us that black cocktail, the ol' doomsday daiquiri, and before we know it, we're soused to the gills from the inside out. Once depression has become electrochemically integrated, it can be extremely difficult to philosophically or psychologically override it; by then it's playing by physical rules, a whole different ball game. That's why, Switters my dearest, every time you've shown signs of feeling sorry for yourself, I've played my blues records really loud or read to you from The Horse's Mouth. And that's why when you've exhibited the slightest tendency toward self-importance, I've reminded you that you and me-- you and I: excuse me--may be every bit as important as the President or the pope or the biggest prime-time icon in Hollywood, but none of us is much more than a pimple on the ass-end of creation, so let's not get carried away with ourselves. Preventive medicine, boy. It's preventive medicine." "But what about self-esteem?" "Heh! Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace--and maybe even glory."	mentor one-woman-s-opinion opinion self-awareness self-pity teacher	Tom Robbins
48440c9	It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.	science self-awareness	Bill Bryson
acee414	Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.	anchoring attachment belonging country empowerment home homelessness independence individuality inspirational nationality roots self-assurance self-awareness self-containment self-determination self-esteem self-reliance self-respect self-sufficiency self-trust	Hugo Hamilton
300c6a9	Yes! I'm ! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I ! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!	nerdy self-awareness	Terry Pratchett
796d6a4	We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.	acceptance-of-oneself awareness fear inspiration inspirational love power self-acceptance self-awareness self-love surrender trust vulnerability	Eric Micha'el Leventhal
c3975fe	[I]t doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere. (xiii)	life love place self-awareness self-knowledge yourself	Sarah Ban Breathnach
86deb4c	It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.	inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes mirror reflections self self-awareness self-discovery self-reflection the-world truth	C. JoyBell C.
142046e	Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.	happiness-quotes inner-peace inner-strength inspirational lifestyle meditation self-awareness self-discovery spiritual wisdom	Amit Ray
72b9bac	I am sure it is everyone's experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.	esteem inspirational life-experience self-awareness self-esteem	W.H. Auden
de40c91	If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.	ritual self-awareness	Paulo Coelho
22d3ac5	You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.	genuineness honesty kindness self-awareness truth-telling	Anne Lamott
5b83e01	Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.	readers self-awareness self-recognition writers writing	Marcel Proust
0df36a9	We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?	self-awareness survival-of-the-human-soul	Samuel Beckett
7a7f7ff	But suppose your daemon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a daemon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is. But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.	self self-awareness	Philip Pullman
76d2c8a	I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood... I was raving, if only to myself.	humor self-awareness yoga	Robin McKinley
8f133dc	I have to admit it humbly, mon cher compatriote, I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I is the refrain of my whole life, which could be heard in everything I said. I could never talk without boasting, especially if I did so with that shattering discretion that was my specialty. It is quite true that I always lived free and powerful. I simply felt released in the regard to all the for the excellent reason that I recognized no equals. I always considered myself more intelligent than everyone else, as I've told you, but also more sensitive and more skillful, a crack shot, an incomparable driver, a better lover. Even in the fields in which it was easy for me to verify my inferiority-like tennis, for instance, in which I was but a passable partner-it was hard for me not to think that, with a little time and practice, I would surpass the best players. I admitted only superiorities in me and this explained my good will and serenity. When I was concerned with others, I was so out of pure condescension, in utter freedom, and all the credit went to me: my self-esteem would go up a degree.	self self-awareness self-esteem	Albert Camus
bfbbc70	What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.	classic-quotes essence existence humanity mankind self-awareness self-definition	Jean-Paul Sartre
8479973	Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.	fear humorous-truism self-awareness	Don DeLillo
2428b8f	"No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And ask in what sense that young man is worthy of ?"	courtship dignity empowerment equality feminism gender independence inferiority integrity marriage marriage-proposal matrimony men self-awareness self-determination social-norms suitability women wooing worthiness	Charlotte Brontë
ede868f	Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.	perfectionism self self-awareness souls	Walt Whitman
b04a0ac	My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant.	knowledge learning self-awareness	Henry David Thoreau
6863f18	I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.	humor self-awareness spirituality	Philip K. Dick
3e0edd5	There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all.	darren-shan self-awareness zom-b	Darren Shan
ccc13d9	I have seen myself backward.	realization self-awareness	Philip K. Dick
e74fbe6	"She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself."	individuality search self-awareness self-reliance	Iain Pears
730fedf	When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our inner senses. Infused with silence and solitude, they bring out the mystery of inner landscape.	self-awareness solitude thoughts	John O'Donohue
e066fb5	Though you might conquer in battle A thousand times a thousand men, You're the greatest battle-winner If you conquer just one - yourself.	buddhist self-awareness v-103	Anonymous
da65aec	Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.	calming-the-mind calming-the-storm-in-mind calmness concentrate concentration concentration-of-power mastery-of-oneself mindfulness mindfulness-buddhism mindfulness-practice quotes-on-life quotes-to-define-my-life quotes-to-live-by self-awareness self-empowerment stability	Jon Kabat-Zinn
4aee80a	We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.	duty morality right-and-wrong self-awareness tragedies	Colleen McCullough
ac7d861	The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can ever come to it is by getting what old people call 'experience.' But by the time we've got that we're no longer the persons who did the things we no longer understand. The trouble is, I suppose, that we change every moment; and the things we did stay.	maturing self-awareness	Edith Wharton
1ad0924	When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.	self-awareness	Mitch Albom
ea53f8a	No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.	identity self-awareness truth	Frank Herbert
093d153	We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves.	judaism self-awareness	James A. Michener
2b19f2e	We're freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I'm a twenty-five-year-old freak and she's a twenty-one-year-old freak, and both those bastards are responsible. I swear to you, I could murder them both without batting an eyelash. The great teachers. The great emancipators. My God. I can't even sit down to lunch with a man any more and hold up my end of a decent conversation. I either get so bored or so goddamn preachy that if the son of a bitch had any sense, he'd break his chair over my head	self-awareness upbringing	J.D. Salinger
8af726b	The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.	norms self-awareness self-esteem success	Susan Cain
d1ec138	My own sense is that the acquisition of self knowledge has been made difficult by the modern world. More and more human beings live in vast urban environments, surrounded by other human beings and the creations of human beings. The natural world, the traditional source of self-awareness, is increasingly absent.	nature self-awareness	Michael Crichton
3e58650	It was one of those moments--which sometimes occur only at the interval of years--when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.	self self-awareness	Nathaniel Hawthorne
1ebc5e4	But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of every consideration. In each individual, the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.	journey-of-life self-awareness	Hermann Hesse
2ba7c81	"Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance--nothing more," says the twentieth-century philosopher-essayist Walter Benjamin. "But to lose oneself in a city--as one loses oneself in a forest--that calls for quite a different schooling." To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin's terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender, a psychic state achievable through geography."	self-awareness travel	Rebecca Solnit
179bbfd	I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.	goodness life people reality self-awareness	James Baldwin
9089908	How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to glorify itself by self-analysis, yet we do not get rid of darkness by hitting it with a baseball bat. We only get rid of darkness by turning on the light.	darkness-and-light darkness-within depression ego enlightenment grief-and-loss healing-the-past light light-of-love light-of-the-spirit painful-memories psychoanalysis self-analysis self-awareness self-help spiritual-healing spiritual-wisdom suffering therapy treatment	Marianne Williamson
71dff70	Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.	self-awareness	David Brin
1e8a877	It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.	humility self-awareness	Pat Conroy
ea12e72	The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.	independence independent-thought self-awareness self-awareness-honesty-self self-realization	Markus Zusak
07b4a70	Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. In these days of specialization there are too few people who have such a deep understanding of two departments of our knowledge that they do not make fools of themselves in one or the other.	learning self-awareness specialization thought-provoking	Richard P. Feynman
827e12d	I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.	inspirational self-awareness self-esteem self-respect sexuality	Iyanla Vanzant
90af93e	I smiled, sipped deliciously at my drink, and made a new rule for myself: if life hands you a compliment, take it.	self-awareness self-esteem self-love	James Patterson
2a144bf	He said sometimes when you're young you have to think about things, because you're forming your value-sets and you keep coming up with Data Insufficient and finding holes in your programs. So you keep trying to do a fix on your sets. And the more powerful your mind is and the more intense your concentration is, the worse damage you can do to yourself, which is why, Justin says, Alphas always have trouble and some of them go way off and out-there, and why almost all Alphas are eccentric. But he says the best thing you can do if you're too bright for your own good is what the Testers do, be aware where you got which idea, keep a tab on everything, know how your ideas link up with each other and with your deep-sets and value-sets, so when you're forty or fifty or a hundred forty and you find something that doesn't work, you can still find all the threads and pull them. But that's not real easy unless you know what your value-sets are, and most CITs don't. CITs have a trouble with not wanting to know that kind of thing. Because some of them are real eetee once you get to thinking about how they link. Especially about sex and ego-nets. Justin says inflexibility is a trap and most Alpha types are inward-turned because they process so fast they're gone and thinking before a Gamma gets a sentence out. Then they get in the habit of thinking they thought of everything, but they don't remember everything stems from input. You may have a new idea, but it stems from input somebody gave you, and that could be wrong or your senses could have been lying to you. He says it can be an equipment-quality problem or a program-quality problem, but once an Alpha takes a falsehood for true, it's a personal problem.	self-awareness	C.J. Cherryh
a6d6ed5	It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.	insanity sanity self-awareness	William Faulkner
8734461	Mave believed that not being able to see your life clearly, to scrutinize it intelligently, meant that probably you were at the dead center of it, and that couldn't possibly be a bad thing.	scrutinize self-awareness self-realization	Lorrie Moore
8596917	Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I'd sooner die than owe anyone money for helping me. Apparently Jimmy knew more about me at that point than I knew about myself.	friendship rehab self-awareness	Craig Ferguson
3ddf25a	No one has ever done this before. No one has ever been you before. This exact interrelated web of people and events and places and memories and desire and love that is your life hasn't ever existed in the history of the Universe. Welcome to a truly unique phenomenon. Welcome to your life. I want you to be here. Welcome to here.	desire love presence present-moment self self-awareness unique	Rob Bell
f44e092	Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes dumb. His toe scuffs a soft storm of sand, he kneels and his arms spread in pantomimic celebration, the immigrant, as in every moment of his life, arriving eternally on the shore of his Self.	immigrant salvation self self-awareness	E.L. Doctorow
4d8a140	Od onog ondasnjeg covjeka ja sam se, i to upravo zbog onog dozivljaja, potpuno odvojio, promatram ga sa strane, sasvim mirno i hladno, i mogu ga opisati kao prijatelja o kojem znam mnogo i sve ono sto je bitno, ali ja uopce vise nisam taj covjek. Mogao bih pricati o njemu, prekoravati ga ili ga osudivati a da uopce ne osjetim da je on jednom bio sastavni dio mene.	man past self-awareness	Stefan Zweig
3cca65e	It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them.	self-awareness	Peter Singer
96b290d	Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.	self-awareness	Charles Stross
34605e4	"Entering into and opening to our inherent spacious soul daily allows a natural liberation of our manifold self-identifications to occur, and it is then that we can truly rest in the sacredness and come to know our ground of being. The great Celtic writer John O'Donohue points to this when he says that "behind the facade of your life, there is something beautiful and eternal happening."	being-yourself celtic-spirituality divine-feminine divine-inspiration divine-self feminine ground-reality groundedness john-o-donohue rest sacred-teachings sacred-wisdom sacredness sacredness-of-life self-awareness self-realization soul	Meghan Don
25d1825	I am openly prideful, secretly judgemental, and cowardly in conflict.	myself self-awareness self-realization	Elizabeth Gilbert
0d0da61	It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the majority of our thoughts, at any given time, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are.	self-awareness thoughts	Jonathan Tropper
5976c73	... tried praying for him ...but I couldn't. I just couldn't. Don't ask me why. I hoped that he was okay, but I couldn't summon the strength to pray for it.	self-awareness self-awareness-honesty-self	Markus Zusak
9a1089e	And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?	self-awareness self-discovery	Diana Gabaldon
04497b5	... But hurting ourselves to inflict pain to others is just another cry to be loved.	love pain self-awareness	Mitch Albom
60b8644	Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act.	self-awareness	Hermann Hesse
505ac4f	She thought about this. She had analyzed it in depth. When you live alone, travel alone, exist solely on the outskirts of other people's lives, you do have time to wonder why what you want most in life is out of reach. You also have the time to tell yourself that you don't want it at all, though whether you can ever be completely convinced is something else.	life lost self-awareness self-realization struggle	Barbara Delinsky
b432d3f	Men are seldom struck by incongruities in their appearance any more than their own conduct.	inconsistency self-awareness	James Fenimore Cooper
0a18081	It's not possible to live twenty-four hours a day soaked in the immediate awareness of one's sex. Gendered self-consciousness has, mercifully, a flickering nature.	carpe-diem dysphoria gender gender-identity living-the-moment maggie-nelson self-awareness the-argonauts transgender	Denise Riley
f432505	But when he sat on the bed beside me, then leaned over and kissed my forehead, my cheek, my lips, his hand pressed to my rib cage, the other stroking my hair back, it was like I was an empty well and didn't know it until just now when he uncovered me and it started to rain.	knowing love self-awareness self-realization	Andre Dubus III
5bd777d	"So not only was this curious bracelet [found at the Denisova cave] unequivocally the work of anatomically human beings--the Denisovans-- but also it testified to their mastery of advanced manufacturing techniques in the Upper Paleolithic, many millennia ahead of the earliest use of these techniques in the Neolithic by our own supposedly "advanced" species, . Also made crystal clear was the realization that the Denisovans must have possessed the same kinds of artistic sensibility and self-awareness that we habitually associate only with our own kind--for there can be no doubt that very real, conscious, aware, and unmistakably beings had interacted with this bracelet at every stage of its conception, design, and manufacture, all the way through to its end use."	denisovans intelligence mastery neolithic paleolithic self-awareness	Graham Hancock
399d502	The duplicity of others must always be shocking when one is unconscious of one's own.	duplicity self-awareness self-deception	Eric Ambler
5ac4574	Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl	cheryl identity perception perspective self self-awareness the-first-bad-man	Miranda July
86f1cc0	Where are you?' 'I am between the light and the waves.	inspirational-quotes laurie-nadel laurie-nadel-quotes quote-about-life quote-of-the-day quote-of-the-week quotes-twitter self-awareness wayne-dyer	Laurie Nadel
635e703	Try to become aware of one feeling a day, keeping in mind that by doing so, you are building your data bank of self-knowledge	inspirational-quotes intuition intuition-quotes laurie-nadel laurie-nadel-quotes power-of-thoughts quote-about-life quote-of-the-day quote-of-the-week quotes-twitter self-awareness wayne-dyer	Laurie Nadel
44676a9	Umitsizlik ozfarkindalik ugruna odenen bedeldir.	self-awareness	Irvin D. Yalom
04064c3	"The first product of self-knowledge is humility," Flannery O'Connor once said. This is how we fight the ego, by really knowing ourselves."	humility self-awareness	Ryan Holiday
8550f41	We can only go to the limits of ourselves--I've learned that if nothing else. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone. - Beryl Markham	sacrifice self-awareness understanding	Paula McLain
440b422	I didn't mean that I'm a nonpareil now. But I'm different, yes. I've found out that I can do quite difficult things if I keep trying very hard, and at least I've discovered that if I don't keep myself occupied I'm unhappy and unpleasant.	motivational self-awareness	Madeleine Brent
e5d6889	Toadstool mandarins are a form of toxic jellyfish whose tentacles are loaded with entheogenic venom. The effects of a mandarin sting are threefold. The first is a sharp stinging sensation; the second a nasty red welt, which may fester if not treated with a salve of toadstool mandarin doodoo. And the third is a bold of self-awareness, thanks to the entheogens in the venom. Having been stung, a victim's typical reaction will be something like: Owww. Zark, that hurts. Then: Oh no. Look at this nasty red welt. I'm in the swimsuit competition later. And finally: What? I'm a latent misogynist with father issues! If a person is allergic to mandarin venom, one sting will prompt total self-awareness, leading to either immediate catatonia or a career as a talk show pundit.	self-awareness	Eoin Colfer
d005480	The only thing white people have that black people need, or should want, is power--and no one holds power forever. White people cannot, in the generality, be taken as models of how to live. Rather, the white man is himself in sore need of new standards, which will release him from his confusion and place him once again in fruitful communion with the depths of his own being.	blacks life power self-awareness white-people whites	James Baldwin
e3438e5	One must be careful not to take refuge in any delusion.	perspicacity self-awareness	James Baldwin

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

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Charlotte Brontë

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care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

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Charlotte Brontë

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When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

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Ralph Ellison

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I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

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Charlotte Brontë

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When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

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Jodi Picoult

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"To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I"."

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Ayn Rand

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The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

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C. JoyBell C.

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I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we're actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we're suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!

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C. JoyBell C.

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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

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Hermann Hesse

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

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Ernest Hemingway

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Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don't need the approval of others.

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Roy T. Bennett

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

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Michel de Montaigne

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The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and it's your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who's not full of hate, who's able to smile and be carefree. So that's who I have to be.

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C. JoyBell C.

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We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

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It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,

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Amit Ray

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It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

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Marianne Williamson

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

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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

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Charlotte Brontë

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I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.

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C. JoyBell C.

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I am who I am; no more, no less.

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Terry Goodkind

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

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John Lennon

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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

self-awareness self-improvement

Jane Austen

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Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again

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Rumi

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We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

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Pico Iyer

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"All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously." At the time Switters had disputed her assertion. Even at seventeen, he was aware that depression could have chemical causes. "The key word here is roots," Maestra had countered. "The roots of depression. For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass. Even an old tomato like me can recall how painful, scary, and disillusioning that realization was. So, there's a tendency, then, to slip into rage and self-pity, which if indulged, can fester into bouts of depression." "Yeah but Maestra--" "Don't interrupt. Now, unless someone stronger and wiser--a friend, a parent, a novelist, filmmaker, teacher, or musician--can josh us out of it, can elevate us and show us how petty and pompous and monumentally useless it is to take ourselves so seriously, then depression can become a habit, which, in tern, can produce a neurological imprint. Are you with me? Gradually, our brain chemistry becomes conditioned to react to negative stimuli in a particular, predictable way. One thing'll go wrong and it'll automatically switch on its blender and mix us that black cocktail, the ol' doomsday daiquiri, and before we know it, we're soused to the gills from the inside out. Once depression has become electrochemically integrated, it can be extremely difficult to philosophically or psychologically override it; by then it's playing by physical rules, a whole different ball game. That's why, Switters my dearest, every time you've shown signs of feeling sorry for yourself, I've played my blues records really loud or read to you from The Horse's Mouth. And that's why when you've exhibited the slightest tendency toward self-importance, I've reminded you that you and me-- you and I: excuse me--may be every bit as important as the President or the pope or the biggest prime-time icon in Hollywood, but none of us is much more than a pimple on the ass-end of creation, so let's not get carried away with ourselves. Preventive medicine, boy. It's preventive medicine." "But what about self-esteem?" "Heh! Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace--and maybe even glory."

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Tom Robbins

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It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.

science self-awareness

Bill Bryson

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Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.

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Hugo Hamilton

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Yes! I'm ! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I ! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!

nerdy self-awareness

Terry Pratchett

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We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

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Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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[I]t doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere. (xiii)

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Sarah Ban Breathnach

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It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.

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C. JoyBell C.

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Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

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Amit Ray

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I am sure it is everyone's experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

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W.H. Auden

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If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

ritual self-awareness

Paulo Coelho

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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

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Anne Lamott

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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

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Marcel Proust

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We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?

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Samuel Beckett

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But suppose your daemon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a daemon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is. But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.

self self-awareness

Philip Pullman

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I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood... I was raving, if only to myself.

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Robin McKinley

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I have to admit it humbly, mon cher compatriote, I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I is the refrain of my whole life, which could be heard in everything I said. I could never talk without boasting, especially if I did so with that shattering discretion that was my specialty. It is quite true that I always lived free and powerful. I simply felt released in the regard to all the for the excellent reason that I recognized no equals. I always considered myself more intelligent than everyone else, as I've told you, but also more sensitive and more skillful, a crack shot, an incomparable driver, a better lover. Even in the fields in which it was easy for me to verify my inferiority-like tennis, for instance, in which I was but a passable partner-it was hard for me not to think that, with a little time and practice, I would surpass the best players. I admitted only superiorities in me and this explained my good will and serenity. When I was concerned with others, I was so out of pure condescension, in utter freedom, and all the credit went to me: my self-esteem would go up a degree.

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Albert Camus

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What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

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Don DeLillo

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"No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And ask in what sense that young man is worthy of ?"

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Charlotte Brontë

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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

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Walt Whitman

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My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant.

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Henry David Thoreau

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I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.

humor self-awareness spirituality

Philip K. Dick

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There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all.

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Darren Shan

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I have seen myself backward.

realization self-awareness

Philip K. Dick

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"She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself."

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Iain Pears

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When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our inner senses. Infused with silence and solitude, they bring out the mystery of inner landscape.

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John O'Donohue

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Though you might conquer in battle A thousand times a thousand men, You're the greatest battle-winner If you conquer just one - yourself.

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Anonymous

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Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn

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We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.

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Colleen McCullough

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The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can ever come to it is by getting what old people call 'experience.' But by the time we've got that we're no longer the persons who did the things we no longer understand. The trouble is, I suppose, that we change every moment; and the things we did stay.

maturing self-awareness

Edith Wharton

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

self-awareness

Mitch Albom

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

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Frank Herbert

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

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James A. Michener

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We're freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I'm a twenty-five-year-old freak and she's a twenty-one-year-old freak, and both those bastards are responsible. I swear to you, I could murder them both without batting an eyelash. The great teachers. The great emancipators. My God. I can't even sit down to lunch with a man any more and hold up my end of a decent conversation. I either get so bored or so goddamn preachy that if the son of a bitch had any sense, he'd break his chair over my head

self-awareness upbringing

J.D. Salinger

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The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

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Susan Cain

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My own sense is that the acquisition of self knowledge has been made difficult by the modern world. More and more human beings live in vast urban environments, surrounded by other human beings and the creations of human beings. The natural world, the traditional source of self-awareness, is increasingly absent.

nature self-awareness

Michael Crichton

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It was one of those moments--which sometimes occur only at the interval of years--when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.

self self-awareness

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of every consideration. In each individual, the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.

journey-of-life self-awareness

Hermann Hesse

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"Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance--nothing more," says the twentieth-century philosopher-essayist Walter Benjamin. "But to lose oneself in a city--as one loses oneself in a forest--that calls for quite a different schooling." To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin's terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender, a psychic state achievable through geography."

self-awareness travel

Rebecca Solnit

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I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.

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James Baldwin

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How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to glorify itself by self-analysis, yet we do not get rid of darkness by hitting it with a baseball bat. We only get rid of darkness by turning on the light.

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Marianne Williamson

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

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David Brin

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It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

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Pat Conroy

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The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.

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Markus Zusak

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Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. In these days of specialization there are too few people who have such a deep understanding of two departments of our knowledge that they do not make fools of themselves in one or the other.

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Richard P. Feynman

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I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.

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Iyanla Vanzant

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I smiled, sipped deliciously at my drink, and made a new rule for myself: if life hands you a compliment, take it.

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James Patterson

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He said sometimes when you're young you have to think about things, because you're forming your value-sets and you keep coming up with Data Insufficient and finding holes in your programs. So you keep trying to do a fix on your sets. And the more powerful your mind is and the more intense your concentration is, the worse damage you can do to yourself, which is why, Justin says, Alphas always have trouble and some of them go way off and out-there, and why almost all Alphas are eccentric. But he says the best thing you can do if you're too bright for your own good is what the Testers do, be aware where you got which idea, keep a tab on everything, know how your ideas link up with each other and with your deep-sets and value-sets, so when you're forty or fifty or a hundred forty and you find something that doesn't work, you can still find all the threads and pull them. But that's not real easy unless you know what your value-sets are, and most CITs don't. CITs have a trouble with not wanting to know that kind of thing. Because some of them are real eetee once you get to thinking about how they link. Especially about sex and ego-nets. Justin says inflexibility is a trap and most Alpha types are inward-turned because they process so fast they're gone and thinking before a Gamma gets a sentence out. Then they get in the habit of thinking they thought of everything, but they don't remember everything stems from input. You may have a new idea, but it stems from input somebody gave you, and that could be wrong or your senses could have been lying to you. He says it can be an equipment-quality problem or a program-quality problem, but once an Alpha takes a falsehood for true, it's a personal problem.

self-awareness

C.J. Cherryh

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It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.

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William Faulkner

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Mave believed that not being able to see your life clearly, to scrutinize it intelligently, meant that probably you were at the dead center of it, and that couldn't possibly be a bad thing.

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Lorrie Moore

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Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I'd sooner die than owe anyone money for helping me. Apparently Jimmy knew more about me at that point than I knew about myself.

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Craig Ferguson

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No one has ever done this before. No one has ever been you before. This exact interrelated web of people and events and places and memories and desire and love that is your life hasn't ever existed in the history of the Universe. Welcome to a truly unique phenomenon. Welcome to your life. I want you to be here. Welcome to here.

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Rob Bell

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Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes dumb. His toe scuffs a soft storm of sand, he kneels and his arms spread in pantomimic celebration, the immigrant, as in every moment of his life, arriving eternally on the shore of his Self.

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E.L. Doctorow

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Od onog ondasnjeg covjeka ja sam se, i to upravo zbog onog dozivljaja, potpuno odvojio, promatram ga sa strane, sasvim mirno i hladno, i mogu ga opisati kao prijatelja o kojem znam mnogo i sve ono sto je bitno, ali ja uopce vise nisam taj covjek. Mogao bih pricati o njemu, prekoravati ga ili ga osudivati a da uopce ne osjetim da je on jednom bio sastavni dio mene.

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Stefan Zweig

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It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them.

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Peter Singer

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

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Charles Stross

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"Entering into and opening to our inherent spacious soul daily allows a natural liberation of our manifold self-identifications to occur, and it is then that we can truly rest in the sacredness and come to know our ground of being. The great Celtic writer John O'Donohue points to this when he says that "behind the facade of your life, there is something beautiful and eternal happening."

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Meghan Don

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

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Elizabeth Gilbert

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It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the majority of our thoughts, at any given time, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are.

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Jonathan Tropper

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... tried praying for him ...but I couldn't. I just couldn't. Don't ask me why. I hoped that he was okay, but I couldn't summon the strength to pray for it.

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Markus Zusak

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

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Diana Gabaldon

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... But hurting ourselves to inflict pain to others is just another cry to be loved.

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Mitch Albom

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

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Hermann Hesse

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She thought about this. She had analyzed it in depth. When you live alone, travel alone, exist solely on the outskirts of other people's lives, you do have time to wonder why what you want most in life is out of reach. You also have the time to tell yourself that you don't want it at all, though whether you can ever be completely convinced is something else.

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Barbara Delinsky

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Men are seldom struck by incongruities in their appearance any more than their own conduct.

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James Fenimore Cooper

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It's not possible to live twenty-four hours a day soaked in the immediate awareness of one's sex. Gendered self-consciousness has, mercifully, a flickering nature.

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Denise Riley

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But when he sat on the bed beside me, then leaned over and kissed my forehead, my cheek, my lips, his hand pressed to my rib cage, the other stroking my hair back, it was like I was an empty well and didn't know it until just now when he uncovered me and it started to rain.

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Andre Dubus III

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"So not only was this curious bracelet [found at the Denisova cave] unequivocally the work of anatomically human beings--the Denisovans-- but also it testified to their mastery of advanced manufacturing techniques in the Upper Paleolithic, many millennia ahead of the earliest use of these techniques in the Neolithic by our own supposedly "advanced" species, . Also made crystal clear was the realization that the Denisovans must have possessed the same kinds of artistic sensibility and self-awareness that we habitually associate only with our own kind--for there can be no doubt that very real, conscious, aware, and unmistakably beings had interacted with this bracelet at every stage of its conception, design, and manufacture, all the way through to its end use."

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Graham Hancock

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The duplicity of others must always be shocking when one is unconscious of one's own.

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Eric Ambler

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

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Miranda July

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Where are you?' 'I am between the light and the waves.

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Laurie Nadel

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Try to become aware of one feeling a day, keeping in mind that by doing so, you are building your data bank of self-knowledge

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Laurie Nadel

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Umitsizlik ozfarkindalik ugruna odenen bedeldir.

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Irvin D. Yalom

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"The first product of self-knowledge is humility," Flannery O'Connor once said. This is how we fight the ego, by really knowing ourselves."

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Ryan Holiday

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We can only go to the limits of ourselves--I've learned that if nothing else. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone. - Beryl Markham

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Paula McLain

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I didn't mean that I'm a nonpareil now. But I'm different, yes. I've found out that I can do quite difficult things if I keep trying very hard, and at least I've discovered that if I don't keep myself occupied I'm unhappy and unpleasant.

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Madeleine Brent

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Toadstool mandarins are a form of toxic jellyfish whose tentacles are loaded with entheogenic venom. The effects of a mandarin sting are threefold. The first is a sharp stinging sensation; the second a nasty red welt, which may fester if not treated with a salve of toadstool mandarin doodoo. And the third is a bold of self-awareness, thanks to the entheogens in the venom. Having been stung, a victim's typical reaction will be something like: Owww. Zark, that hurts. Then: Oh no. Look at this nasty red welt. I'm in the swimsuit competition later. And finally: What? I'm a latent misogynist with father issues! If a person is allergic to mandarin venom, one sting will prompt total self-awareness, leading to either immediate catatonia or a career as a talk show pundit.

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Eoin Colfer

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The only thing white people have that black people need, or should want, is power--and no one holds power forever. White people cannot, in the generality, be taken as models of how to live. Rather, the white man is himself in sore need of new standards, which will release him from his confusion and place him once again in fruitful communion with the depths of his own being.

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James Baldwin

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One must be careful not to take refuge in any delusion.

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