Quotes About Self-awareness

Brightness," the man said as she stepped up to him, "we aren't what you think we are." "No," Shallan replied. "You aren't what you think yourselves to be.

So, you're worried about what?" M-Bot said. "That your shadow might take your place?" "No," I whispered. "I worry that I'm already the shadow.

Thank you. For being willing to talk. For not turning me in. For... being you.' 'I'm pretty good at being me,' I said. 'I've had all these years to practice--I hardly ever get it wrong these days.

If there was one thing Kelsier was good at, it was lying to himself.

Too proud to crawl?" Kelsier said. "Nonsense! Why, I'd say that we Mistborn are too proud not to be humble enough to go crawling about -- in a dignified manner, of course." Dockson frowned, approaching the desk. "Kell, that didn't make any sense." "We Mistborn need not make sense," Kelsier said haughtily.

A man found himself when he was alone. You only had one person to chat with, one person to blame.

It frightens me," Shallan said, "because we all see the world by some kind of light personal to us, and that light changes our perception. I don't see clearly. I want to, but I don't know if I ever truly can.

In short, Tress was a normal teenage girl. She knew this because the other girls often mentioned how they weren't like "everyone else," and after a while Tress figured that the group "everyone else" must include only her. The other girls were obviously right, as they all knew how to be unique—they were so good at it, in fact, that they did it together.

Bravery isn't about what people call you, Spensa. It's about who you know yourself to be.

Humans don't have programming." "Yes you do. You have too much of it. Conflicting programs, none of it interfacing properly, all calling different functions at the same time—or the same function for contradictory reasons. Yet you ignore it sometimes. That is not a flaw. It is what makes you you.

People think I know a lot about women. The truth is, I know how to get them, how to make them laugh, how to make them interested. I don't know how to keep them." He hesitated. "I really want to keep this one.

Your ego doesn't count as a separate individual, Shallan.

Ruin still used Reen's voice—it was familiar, something that had always seemed a part of her. Discovering that it belonged to that thing …it was like finding out that her reflection really belonged to someone else, and that she'd never actually seen herself.

You're an excellent judge of character, Sarene—except your own. Often our own opinions of ourselves are the most unrealistic.

I'm so storming clever that half the time, even I can't follow what I'm talking about.

Maybe I'm my own brand of wrong.

Perhaps it was time, for once, to stop letting the rain dictate his mood. He couldn't banish the seed of darkness inside him, but Stormfather, he didn't need to let it rule him either.

The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.

Don't you see, boy? This is why you shouldn't be king. Leave the job to men who understand their own corruption; don't let it destroy you.

A man is what he has passion about. If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

Get better. Learn to accept that sometimes what you feel isn't invalid, but that it doesn't mean you have to act according to those feelings either.

There was no correcting past mistakes, especially since he could see no real 'mistakes' he had made. He had done the best he could, and that had proven insufficient.

Your words make sense up here," Kaladin said, tapping his head. "But not down here." He slapped his breast. "That's always been your problem, son. Letting your heart override your head." "My head can't be trusted sometimes," Kaladin said.

The best modesty is shown while bragging