Self Aware Quotes

“By dread things I am compelled. I know that. I see the trap closing. I know what I am. But while life is in me I will not stop this violence. No. Oh my friends who is there to comfort me? Who understands? Leave me be, let me go, do not soothe me. This is a knot no one can untie. There will be no rest, there is no retrieval. No number exists for griefs like these.”
― Sophocles, Electra

“Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me—believe me. Sometimes I shock myself.”
― Sophocles, Electra

“A person does not reach the pinnacle of self-realization without relentlessly exploring the parameters of the self, exhausting their psychic energy coming to know oneself. Without society to rebel against and to sail away from, there would be no advances in civilization; there would be no need for healers and mystics, priests and artist, or shaman and writers. It is our curiosity and refusal to be satisfied with the status quo that compels us to challenge ourselves to learn and continue to grow. We only establish inner peace of mind with acceptance of the world, with the recognition of our connection to the entirety of the universe, and understanding that chaos and change are inevitable. We must also love because without love there are no acts of creation. Without love, humankind is a spasmodic pool of brutality and suffering. Love is a balm. It cures human aches and pains; it unites couples, families, and cultures. Love is a creative force, without love there is no art or religion. Art expresses thought and feelings, an articulation of adore and reverence.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Do not become self-absorbed, but become self-aware.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“The vast majority of adults have never met themselves.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we’ve crammed into our hearts.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Human beings possess the gift of personal freedom and liberty of the mind. We each possess the sovereignty over the body and mind to define ourselves and embrace the values that we wish to exemplify. Personal autonomy enables humans to take independent action and use reason to establish moral values. We are part of nature. Consciousness, human cognition, and awareness of our own mortality allow us to script an independent survival reality and not merely react to environmental forces.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“There is a very fine line (almost transparent), between cordiality and hypocrisy--knowing to distinguish them is a gift of Gods.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind to explore paradoxes and discover previously unrealized personal truths. Writing is as arduous as any trek into the wilderness. Every sentence takes a writer deeper into the jungle of the mind, a world of frightening inconsistencies created by our waking life’s desire that the world of chaos conform to our convenience.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Eu era linda, mesmo aos catorze anos. Ah, eu sei que o mundo prefere mulheres que não tem noção do próprio poder, mas estou de saco cheio disso. A verdade é que quando eu passava, as pessoas olhavam. Eu não tinha orgulho nenhum disso. Não fui eu que fiz meu rosto assim. Nem o meu corpo, Mas também não vou sentar aqui e dizer 'Aí, sério? As pessoas me achavam bonita mesmo? Como uma garotinha fútil.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“We can learn to protect ourselves against malicious hackers and scam artists, allowing ourselves to feel calmer and more confident in any situation. Critically, we can learn to become far more self-aware about how we’re communicating.”
― Christopher Hadnagy, Human Hacking: Win Friends, Influence People, and Leave Them Better Off for Having Met You

“Travel unsettles the appropriate. You’re bound to be inappropriate. Which is probably why I don’t feel the intense embarrassment some do at not being able to speak foreign languages correctly. It seems to me that one of the privileges of travel is never to fit in. And not to fit in, not to be able to, is a kind of freedom. One of the freedoms that money can buy, like buying a hotel room in which one is psychologically unburdened and can act out guilty pleasures, capitalist ones, no doubt.”
― Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness

“To attempt to know myself ‘apart’ from God is to choose to know nothing more than ‘a part’ of myself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When they got to their hotel she went straight up to bed, but he paused to get a drink. There was, in the vestibule, a flower stall and he bought a handful of roses, stiffly wired into a bouquet, before proceeding to the oppressive gorgeousness of their bridal suite. The lift was lined with looking glass, so that as he shot upwards he got an endlessly duplicated version of himself, stout and nervous, a light cloak flung over his shoulder and flowers in his hand: an infinitely long row of gentlemen carrying offerings to an unforgiving past.”
― Margaret Kennedy

“tall heavily-armed Jacky, beautiful elegant Ozma, and the little girl with the big sword. Dammit”
― Marion G. Harmon, Ronin Games

“To become more self-aware, also becomes wiser in decisions and development of a deeper personal fulfillment, which in turn helps to also avoid depression and anxiety.”
― Dee Waldeck

“For greater freedom and joy you must 1) be self-aware, 2) have intent to create and choose high-value experiences, 3) be equipped to measure opportunity cost accurately.⁣”
― Richie Norton

“No one can hold me accountable. That is a job for my conscience and my soul. I am the only judge of what I am capable of, because who really knows me but me? Who really understands the road I have traveled if they can't even find it on a map?”
― Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good

“I’ve always been dope, just not always self aware.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Spiritual awakening transforms the so-called self-awareness into the realization that the Self is awareness.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Our shared humanity is far deeper than we presume it to be. For in the face of another we can see our own, whether that be our deepest fears, our crippling insecurities, our most intimate pain, or our greatest hopes. Therefore, the best place that I might find myself is in the face of someone other than myself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Here is also a direction. It’s impossible to have any trajectory or speed of motion without starting here. Here is our beginning, and every great story requires an origin.”
― Joy Donnell, Beyond Brand: Master Your Power, Joy, and Media To Live Your Legacy

“...self awareness its the foundational starter step toward clarity of social awareness. We are open windows outsiders look through...we will impact perceptions well as we pane and frame them mindfully." ~ Lady Tracey Bond DoubleOHHSeven™ The Branding Bullionaire”
― Lady Tracey Bond DoubleOHHSeven™

“Dear Daughter,
Know yourself very well. When you are self-aware, you will not allow anyone to compare you with someone else.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Dear Daughter: Short and Sweet Messages for a Queen

“Make the most of who you are lest you fall prey to who you are not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You are so violent,' Hawke all but purred.

'You keep saying that, but I'm really not.'

Hawke laughed again, the sound deep and real. 'You really aren't all that self-aware.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“I’ve got too much history of thinking about how you present yourself. I think that I get known for being a motormouth, but when introspection is provoked, I can’t help but make it a bit of therapy.”
― Matty Healy

“He knew he was at time brooding, and that he could be brusque, and that—as evidenced here yesterday—he had trouble concealing suspicions of sketchy people, circumstances, or stories. He grew up with three sisters, so he had no choice but to be fairly self-aware.”
― Carly Greer, Frappe to Know You

“The biggest thing that I need to feel safe around is myself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We may think we’re self-aware- who could know us better?- but sometimes we can’t see (or smell) ourselves as clearly as the people around us. Think about that- the moments where you can’t see what everyone else is seeing about you. You can’t see yourself because you’re too close to yourself.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin