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Self awareness
«Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.»
«Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| About:
Judgement,
Psychology,
Self awareness,
Understanding
| Keywords:
irritate, irritated, irritates, lead, understanding
«Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.»
«A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
| About:
Self awareness,
Soul
| Keywords:
cover, covering, coverings, depths, forty, go into, hides, ox, skins, thick, thick skin, thirty
«He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Knowledge,
Self,
Self awareness,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
enlightened
«I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Egotism,
Gossip,
Self awareness,
witty
| Keywords:
all, as we say, at all, back, backed up, backing, back out, back to back, behind, behinds, conceited, far, from way back, furthest, get behind, knowing, like, makes, making known, On Our Backs, people, say, Say Any, take back, too, WHAT
«The final mystery is oneself.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Mystery,
Self-knowledge,
Self awareness
| Keywords:
final, finals, mystery, oneself
«When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Deceit,
Romance,
Self awareness
| Keywords:
always, And One, begins, be all and end all, calls, call at, call out, call up, deceiving, ends, end on, in love, One World, others, romance, romances, romancing, self, that is, The Calling, The Loved One, world
«Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Reality,
Self awareness,
Truth
| Keywords:
all told, at the least, give, given any, give out, him, His, least, man, manned, mans, mask, masked, masking, of her own, on her own, own, person, talks, Talk to Her, Tell, tell on, their talk, The Telling, The Truth, this talk, truth, truth telling, when, will