Quotes about Self-awareness

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

I can be a prickly personality at times, but none of it's ever malicious. I don't think anyone who really knows me on a deep level thinks I'm a bad guy. I like to think I'm a good guy.

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

Henri de Lubac, one of the most outstanding Roman Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, put it with a clarity and brevity very hard to improve upon: 'It is not sincerity, it is truth which frees us… To seek sincerity above all things is perhaps, at bottom, not to want to be transformed.

To think of myself as a body, to be conscious of myself as a body, is to be conscious of other people's consciousness.

Memory is the 'self', because it is my presence to myself, the way in which I constitute myself and understand myself as a subject with a continuous history of experience.

No one will know who we are... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

I'm man enough to tell you that I can't put my finger on exactly what my philosophy is right now, but I'm flexible.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.

That all is as thinking makes it so — and you control your thinking. So remove your judgements whenever you wish and then there is calm - as the sailor rounding the cape finds smooth water and the welcome of a waveless bay.