Quotes About Self-awareness

I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.

If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked.

Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad things you did do - well, that's memoirs.

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

I'm a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Age 45. — At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

Ages 70+. — The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

I have reached a conclusion: there is no such thing as inspiration. I thought so once, and made an ass of myself accordingly.

You and I are what we are, and will be what we will be. As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that... The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. That is all.

I wasted another year of my life but this time it's not my fault.

I was addicted to the hokey pokey, but I turned myself around.

I went to the river, dove into the water, and sat at the bottom, but my thoughts followed me.

back off from this poem it is a greedy mirror you are into this poem from the waist down nobody can hear you can they ? this poem has had you up to here.

Don't worry about how you look to the world; remember, the world is an illusion. It will remake itself according to what you resonate and focus on. Concern yourself only with living a life that FEELS miraculous, wondrous, and magical to you.

Idiot,si nuk e paske mesuar se armiku me i madh i njeriut eshte vetvetja? Si s'e ditke ti se nga tjetri ka gjase te shpetosh,por nga vetvetja kurre?

There are so goddamn many ways to be a fool a man can't expect to avoid them all.

Ja! - Teška rije?, koja u o?ima onih pred kojima je kazana odre?uje naše mjesto, kobno i nepromjenjivo, ?esto daleko ispred ili iza onog što mi o sebi znamo, izvan naše volje i izvan naših snaga. Strašna rije? koja nas, jednom izgovorena, zauvijek vezuje i poistovje?uje sa svim onim što smo zamislili i rekli i sa ?im nikad nismo ni pomišljali da se poistovjetimo, a u stvari smo, u sebi, ve? odavno jedno.

Ovih dana sam mnogo ?itao i mnogo razgovarao sa ljudima - više nego što je zdravo i dobro za mene - a nauk koji se može izvu?i iz svega toga uvek je isti. Iznutra treba rasti, ?utke i neprimetno napredovati, i u pravi ?as se zaustaviti. Sve drugo zna?i: sam sebi plesti zamku, spremati svoj sopstveni pad.

How do you know you're a girl? I'm wearing a frock. And if you take it off? I get cold, so I put it back on. If I was a boy, I don't know what I'd do.

What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.

When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.