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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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"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
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"I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics."
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"Not to be able to find one's 'own' faults, this is called the world."
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"I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess."
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"I more fear what is within me than what comes from without."
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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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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
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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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"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world."
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"To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia."
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"People everywhere love Windows."
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"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
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"It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door."
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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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"Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still."
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"Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes."
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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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"'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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"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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"When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less."
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"No one knows more about the way you think than you do."
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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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"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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"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."
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"I'm a fool.At least i'm a self aware fool."
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"Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add."
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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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"Do you know yourself?."
3
"As a writer, one is busy with archaeology."
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"Be yourself, nobody can do it better than you."
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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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"Accept who are you and your uniqueness. Define your choices and believes."
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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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"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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"To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do."
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"Only what is below you tries to pull you down."
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"The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself."
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"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications."
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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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"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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"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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"Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself."
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"One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer."
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