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Self-awareness Quotes
"We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see."
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"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."
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"I more fear what is within me than what comes from without."
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"To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia."
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"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
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"Not to be able to find one's 'own' faults, this is called the world."
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"People everywhere love Windows."
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"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."
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"Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add."
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"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."
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"As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it."
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"But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving."
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"The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself."
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"I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics."
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"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better."
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"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications."
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"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
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"I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess."
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"As a writer, one is busy with archaeology."
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"The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you."
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"When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less."
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"I'm a fool.At least i'm a self aware fool."
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"Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes."
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"Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."
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"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
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"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority."
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"Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still."
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"'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth."
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"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world."
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"We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves."
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"I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result."
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"No one knows more about the way you think than you do."
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"Thoughts can only hurt you with your permission, feelings can only wound you with your consent, experiences can only damage you with your authorization; life can only ruin you with your approval."
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"Only what is below you tries to pull you down."
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"To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence."
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"All what you seek is within you."
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"Use time to discover who you are."
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"Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections."
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"If only I could see myself from the same vantage point that I observe the world; I might judge my behavior and expressions more critically, and others less."
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"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him."
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"Be yourself, nobody can do it better than you."
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"Your mind is an entire world, your heart is an entire cosmos, and your soul is an entire universe."
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"To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do."
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"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
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"As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man."
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"It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door."
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"Do you know yourself?."
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"In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color."
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