self-awareness Quotes

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.