Quotes About Self-awareness

There was a man who was worthless, and knew he was worthless, and yet however far down he tried to sink his soul, there was always some part of him capable of great action.

Goodness, my nose is enormous,' she exclaimed. 'Why didn't anyone tell me?

And Jessamine-Jessamine was gazing at her in abject horror, like someone who has seen a vision of their own ghost. For a moment Tessa felt a stab of guilt. It lasted only a moment, though. Slowly Jessamine lowered her hand from her mouth, her face still very pale. "Goodness, my nose is enormous," she exclaimed. "Why didn't anyone tell me?

Jem--Jem is all the better part of myself. I would not expect you to understand. I owe him this." "Then what am I?" Cecily asked. Will exhaled, too exasperated to check himself. "You are my weakness." "And Tessa is your heart," she said, not angrily, but thoughtfully. "Not a fool, as I told you," she added at his startled expression. I know that you love her.

It's like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop.

You decide the truth about yourself. No one else. And the choice about what kind of person you will be is yours alone.

The choices we make, make us.

Why do you do these things to yourself? Not just what you did to the window, but the way you talked to Clary. What are you punishing yourself for? You can't help how you feel.

We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget.

But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.

We can be cruelest to those who remind us of ourselves." "Ty

I had never realized before how much you can take from someone by not allowing them the words they need to describe themselves.

What's your name, then? "Tessa looked at him in disbelief. "What's my name?" "Don't you know it?

It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren't just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.

Sometimes the bravest thing we can do is confront our own failings.

Alec knew who he was. He knew what he had done and what he had fought for, and he knew what he would fight for in the future. And he knew exactly who he loved.

Simon looked down at himself and took it all in. The billows of the shirt. The deep, chest-exposing V. The tightness of the leather. "Why is it," he said after a moment, "that whenever I think I've found the most terrible thing that could happen to me, I'm always wrong.

If you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

I am indeed my most unmerciful critic.

Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.

It was revolting that I had been like that. Shameful. Disgraceful, in the old-time sense of the word. And what was even worse? That I could now see myself so wretchedly clearly. I had changed, I recognized bitterly.I hated that I could see myself as I was. What a terrible thing to know. I would never be able to not know it, to forget it.I didn't see how I could ever forgive River for that.

Hadn't I wanted to be known like that? Seen from the inside, lit from within