Quotes About Self-awareness

He was accustomed to paying measurable heed only to those details that bore upon him most directly.

It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny...

I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.

There was a door And I could not open it. I could not touch the handle. Why could I not walk out of my prison? What is hell? Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to Escape to. One is always alone.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

And I have known the eyes already, known them all— The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, Then how should I begin To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways? And how should I presume?

What you've been living on is an image of Celia Which you made for yourself, to meet your own needs.

I tell you, it is not me you are looking at, Not me you are grinning at, not me your confidential looks Incriminate, but that other person, if person, You thought I was: let your necrophily Feed upon that carcase

Harry: "I tell you, it is not me you are looking at, Not me you are grinning at, not me your confidential looks Incriminate, but that other person, if person, You thought I was: let your necrophily Feed upon that carcase

But I deceived myself. It takes so many years To learn that one is dead!

Humility is endless.

And what is the real you. I haven't much experience, But I see something now which doesn't come from tutors Or from books, or from thinking, or from observation:

You know how it happens when sometimes one starts arguing, knowing well that one is in the wrong, and this knowledge just makes one get more vicious and unbending in argument?

There were more problems with solitude than just being horny and bored. If you didn't have anyone to talk to for days on end, you didn't have anyone to let you know whether you were going nuts or not.

do you choose to choose and actively create the kind of life that you want for yourself?

You don't have to access the physical details to address the emotional damage within yourself. You can't escape your own experience.

it was almost as if she split herself into two entirely separate beings—her body-being going through the motions while her mind-being stood off to the side and watched. She didn't like that feeling. It frightened her. When she felt that way, a crazy panic gripped her that someone would notice there were two of her, and she would be revealed for the fraud and the freak that she was.

Just like that. It's time I started paying attention, before I end up like Stan Dempsey, living alone with an arsenal and one lawn chair in the backyard.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop]

The hardest lesson any of us must learn is there's only so much we can do," she informed him, her voice lemon-tart. "We run into it headfirst all the time, knowing what we can do, what we can't, how much we can do. We think of magic as this promise that we will fix anything that comes our way, Keth. We can't.

Have you ever noticed that when you try to deny some part of yourself, things fall out so you need that part more than any other?

On the outside, the pony insisted. Not inside. Inside you're People.

Besides, haven't you noticed how tiring losing your temper is? I've noticed it gets you punishments, the redheaded boy replied with a shrug. Maybe it's the same thing. Well, you're tired at the end of both, so there you are, Kel said practically.