Quotes About Self-awareness

It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.

If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.

Silverfish looked down. Oh. Are you a dwarf? Cuddy gave him a blank stare. Are you a giant? He said. Me? Of course not! Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.

Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.

Vimes felt his hand begin to move of its own accord-- And stopped. Red rage froze. There was The Beast, all around him. And that's all it was. A beast. Useful, but still a beast. You could hold it on a chain, and make it dance, and juggle balls. It didn't think. It was dumb. What you were, what you were, was not The Beast.

But you ain't part of it, are you? said Granny conversationally. You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?

Is It Frightening To Be Free? You said it. You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves? Seems to be a major human activity, yes.

Talent just defines what you do," he said. "It doesn't define what you are. Deep down, I mean. When you know what you are, you can do anything.

Tiffany's Second Thoughts said: Hang on, was that a First Thought? And Tiffany thought: No, that was a Third Thought. I'm thinking about how I think about what I'm thinking. At least, I think so. Her Second Thoughts said: Let's all calm down, please, because this is quite a small head.

Well, child? Aren't you going to try to turn me into some kind of unspeakable creature? I don't think I shall bother, madam, seeing as you are making such a good job of it yourself!

He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him.

Well, I wish I'd get out of my head, it's quite crowded enough with me in here.

Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.

I don't think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

He stared at his feet. "I'm still very ignorant," he said, "but at least I'm ignorant about really important things.

A man can learn all of an opponent's weaknesses on that board,' said Gilt. 'Really?' said Vetinari, raising his eyebrows. 'Should not he be trying to learn his own?

Vimes had never mastered ambition. It was something that happened to other people.

Are you a hero, actually?" "Um, no. Not as such. Not at all, really. Even less than that, in fact.

Only Granny Weatherwax really knew Granny Weatherwax.

The anger rose up, joyfully. 'Yes! I'm me! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I think! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!

The problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to.

most people don't set foot outside their own heads much.

It is a strange thing to find yourself doing something you have apparently always wanted to do, when in fact up until that moment you had never known that you had always wanted to do it, or even what it was