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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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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
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"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."
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"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
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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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"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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"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications."
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"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority."
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"Not to be able to find one's 'own' faults, this is called the world."
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"To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia."
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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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"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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"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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"'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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"People everywhere love Windows."
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"I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics."
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"I'm a fool.At least i'm a self aware fool."
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"As a writer, one is busy with archaeology."
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"Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes."
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"When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less."
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"To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do."
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"I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess."
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"We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves."
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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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"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
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"If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us."
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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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"Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still."
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"Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add."
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"It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door."
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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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"Your mind is an entire world, your heart is an entire cosmos, and your soul is an entire universe."
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"Only what is below you tries to pull you down."
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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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"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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"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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"The greatest enemy of any person is his own ego."
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"And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up."
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"No one knows more about the way you think than you do."
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"I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing."
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"The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself."
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"But mostly I just think I'am not the best person to demonstrate all the goodness humanity has to offer. I don't want you to be too disappointed when you realize that."
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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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"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
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