Quotes About Self-awareness

That was a monstrous thought - he KNEW it was monstrous. Yet he thought it all the same.

So, you learned you can't beat everything. So you learned your human. How sad.

Representation matters. Without the work of other authors writing in a similar vein, I had lost sight of myself entirely

It had occurred to me I was not courageous, had never been brave, only arrogant or unthinking.

Behind his eyes, sluggish currents of self-dislike, guilt, and shame stirred cloudily.

She talks to demons. Yes, to one: herself.

Dear me," Romulan said, "worst of all my execrable failings, to bring you, sir, to such a display.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

I am no Othello, Othello was a lie.

Like all of my fictions, Sinner is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

Knowing you're worthless doesn't give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.

Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception.

You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

People reveal their true character when they're off center.

we all face similar pressures to forget the simple truth of who we are. Particularly the truths that don't jive with what we see around us. As time wears us down we can forget who we once were.

You will only see who you are and thus be who you are as you surrender your attachment to all other identities

We all get to discover who we really are at some point, and when we do, it can be quite unsettling.

Our challenge isn't in becoming more than we are, because we are already risen and complete. Our challenge is to remember and abide in who we are, each day and each hour.

What does matter is whether or not we take offense when we think we've been wronged, regardless of who we think we are or what costume we're wearing.

See with lamps on, Christy. Eyes wide open. See yourself as beautiful. The

There are no longer any problems to solve. If there are no longer any problems to solve, there's no longer any need for correction. If there's no need for correction, then there's no need for law. Live in the grace of that which is now perfect, as it is. Be perfect, don't try to become perfect. You already are, you just don't know it yet. Be still and know.

And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see each other in life. [As quoted in Elia Kazan's autobiography, A Life (1988)]

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.