Quotes about Self-awareness

You and I are what we are, and will be what we will be. As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that... The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. That is all.

Besides, who is to say that the feelings he writes in his diary are his true feelings? Who is to say that at each moment while the pen moves he is truly himself? At one moment he might truly be himself, at another he might simply be making things up. How can one know for sure? Why should he even want to know for sure?

We can only know and understand ourselves fully through others — through the way we experience others and ourselves in relation to others, and the way others experience us.

Follow your own nature.

I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.

In fact I realized I had no guts anyway, which I've long known. but I have joy.

I think anyone who's willing to be brutally honest with who they are and express themselves is always going to get the oddball label, the pyscho label, the twisted label. That's what happens.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.