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Self-awareness Quotes
"We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see."
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"I more fear what is within me than what comes from without."
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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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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
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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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"To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia."
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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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"To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do."
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"People everywhere love Windows."
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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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"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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"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
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"Not to be able to find one's 'own' faults, this is called the world."
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"As a writer, one is busy with archaeology."
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"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world."
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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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"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
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"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority."
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"Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add."
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"Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still."
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"We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves."
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"When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less."
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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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"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications."
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"I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess."
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"Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes."
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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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"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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"'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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"No one knows more about the way you think than you do."
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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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"If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us."
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"It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door."
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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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"All what you seek is within you."
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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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"Your mind is an entire world, your heart is an entire cosmos, and your soul is an entire universe."
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"I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing."
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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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"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
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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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"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him."
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"The greatest enemy of any person is his own ego."
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