self-awareness Quotes

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.