Quotes About Self-awareness

The words of others cannot rob us of our inner peace and joy unless we give them the power to do so.

pickpocketed your own pocket

Colleagues at work found him talkative and articulate, but occasionally boring, and he lacked the sense to recognise when he had said enough (even when other people held newspapers in front of their faces) and went on talking as if the most profound interest had been shown.

I'm sure I am wrong about many things, although I'm not sure exactly which things I'm wrong about. I'm even sure I'm wrong about what I think I'm right about in at least some cases.

How to see a vampire in three easy steps: 1. Get up. 2. Find a mirror. 3. Look at your first vampire.

It's probably true that you're forging your own character during every minute of every day, with every decision you make, but there are some moments in which this is more clear than in others.

We congratulate ourselves on having abandoned our vices, when it is they who have abandoned us.

These friends were his anchor; they kept him from floating off into the uncharted realms of his own self-regard.

And I began to understand How there is nothing complicated in this world That is not of my own making,

I knew I had to break up with Ann Rosenberg after she chose a teal dress for the prom. I had never heard of teal. Also, I was gay.

15A fool is in love with his own opinion, But wisdom means being teachable.

When I check my phone to remember I exist and I shake it and shake it I shake myself, as if to clear the Etch A Sketch of my face. If I'm dead inside how would I know, how would a bulb check its own filament.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, ìwhat is the most valuable use of my time right now?

The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.

Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true

It occurred to him that perhaps all his life he had only been hearing echoes of himself, and that his morality, on which he had once prided himself, was merely a refusal to permit other people into his life.

I love you and I feel sad just like real people, so I must be human... Mustn't I?

Faking it is exactly what a lot of introverts learn to do from an early age.

our temperaments may define us, that doesn't mean we're controlled by them—if we can find something or someone that motivates us to push beyond the boundaries of our nerves. I'm happy to be an introvert, but that's not all I am.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.

As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time you have no idea whether you're capable of it.

I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

i'm a fool in so many ways.