Quotes About Self-awareness

Does your hate make you happy, my dear, or does it continually eat through you, a cancer of its own making? Does the constant fueling of that angry fire not exhaust you and take away from living the wonderful life you've been given?

I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.

her feelings were unusual creatures. Sensitive as a coral reef to any personal criticism, but entirely oblivious to any hurt she inflicted on anyone else.

People would rather hold on to their illusions than face the truth." "It seems to me that people have to know their own truth before they can embrace someone else's," I philosophized. Mark elaborated, "The average public is socially engineered to the point where they no longer think to look within.

But it would be wrong of me to say that we were all on equal footing, which is why I can't just write about my bad English next to your bad English. In my efforts to speak nearby, I also have to confront the distance between us, which is challenging because once I implicate myself, I can never implicate myself enough.

Shame gives me the ability to split myself into the first and third person. To recognize myself, as Sartre writes, "as the Other sees me.

Sometimes you need to explain your experiences in order to understand them yourself.

I've been raised and educated to please white people and this desire to please has become ingrained into my consciousness. Even to declare that I'm writing for myself would still mean I'm writing to a part of me that wants to please white people. I didn't know how to escape it.

Can I write honestly? Not only about how much I've been hurt but how I have hurt others? And can I do it without steeping myself in guilt, since guilt demands absolution and is therefore self-serving? In other words, can I apologize without demanding your forgiveness? Where do I begin?

not (the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are).

POOR Catullus, 'tis time you should cease your folly, and account as lost what you see is lost.

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention.

Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard.

It is no disaster to be unhappy but how discouraging it must be to know that there is nothing to pin the blame on, outside oneself?

Everyone back the fuck up! I am not that pretty!

How strange, I thought, that we are able to argue so well against ourselves but so ineffectively _for_ ourselves.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

I am writing My Life so that I may laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.

Confessare, anche a se stessi, i propri desideri - quelli veri - è pericoloso. Se sono realizzabili, e spesso lo sono, dichiararli ti mette di fronte alla paura di provarci. E dunque alla tua vigliaccheria. Allora preferisci non pensarci, o pensare che hai desideri impossibili, e che è da adulti non pensare alle cose impossibili.

Secondo te qual è la qualità più importante per una persona? -Il senso dell'umorismo. Se hai il senso dell'umorismo-non l'ironia, o il sarcasmo, che sono un'altra cosa- non ti prendi sul serio. E allora non puoi essere cattivo, non puoi essere stupido o non puoi essere volgare. Se ci pensi comprende quasi tutto.