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Self Awareness Quotes

"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are"
Jose Saramago
"We never consider that the thing that is likely to cause us the most harm is the same thing that brings us the most happiness"
Jose Saramago
"To live is to choose, but to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there"
Kofi Annan
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself"
Leo Tolstoy
"Through others we become ourselves"
Lev Vygotsky
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes"
Marcel Proust
"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full"
Marcel Proust
"The world is full of contradictions. We can only confront them if we can face up to them"
Mario Vargas Llosa
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself"
Michel de Montaigne
"On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom"
Michel de Montaigne
"We are part of this universe. We are in this universe. But perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in us"
Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?"
Philip Roth
"We are all complicated human beings, and we must deal with various sides of our character"
Primo Levi
"I think, therefore I am"
Rene Descartes
"To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them"
Rene Descartes
"Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives—the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change—truly are powerless"
Salman Rushdie
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."
Sylvia Plath
"Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve"
T. S. Eliot
"The things that we love tell us what we are."
Thomas Aquinas
"Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion"
Thomas Hobbes