self-awareness Quotes

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

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.

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

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

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.