Quotes About Self-awareness

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is unlikely to look out.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older

The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.

No trates de mostrarte excesivamente ingenioso para evitar que un hombre por naturaleza ingenioso perciba por casualidad que en realidad eres exactamente como quisieras que él fuera.

Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.

People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward 'I'm such a klutz' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver.

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.

Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.

Right now don't be overwhelmed or intimidated by how much other people may seem to be doing. They haven't lived your life. The only person you can change is you, and the only person who can change you, is you.

The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

There isn't a thing I can't do now that I didn't do when I was twenty-one...which gives you an idea of how pathetic I was when I was twenty-one. (That's a lie, but I might as well tell you something right here at the beginning of the book. Anytime I can get a laugh I'm not going to let the truth interfere with it.)

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.

I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

I'm really white trash.