Quotes About Self-awareness

I have made mistakes, but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

I forgot they were talking about me. They sound so wonderfully convincing.

A sense of humor is the ability to laugh at your own jokes when your friends tell them.

Remember, if God had wanted this to be perfect, he never would have had me up here.

When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.

Recognizing what we have done in the past is a recognition of ourselves. By conducting a dialogue with our past, we are searching how to go forward.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.... We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.'

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone-its value is incontestable.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city.

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing other patients.

I'm not at all stuck up . . . although, judging from those around me, I have every right to be.

Well-adjusted means you can make the same mistakes over and over again, and keep smiling.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.