Quotes with self-aware

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  • Sebastian Faulks This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.
    Engleby (2007)
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Bo Bennett Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • David Hume Thus we feign the continu’d existence of the perceptions of our senses, to remove the interruption; and run into the notion of a soul, and self, and substance, to disguise the variation.
    A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Abu Sa'id To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.
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  • Walter Benjamin To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Assata Shakur To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bell Hooks To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
    Ending Racism Killing Rage
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Denis Waitley To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Abu Bakr To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Joan Didion To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Eric Hoffer To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes, we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Joan Didion To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Antoine Rivarol To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Madame Neckar To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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  • Mary Webb To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi
    Mary Webb
    English novelist and poet
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  • Bo Bennett To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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