self-awareness Quotes

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.