Quotes About Self-awareness

You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

What I need is a new story about who I am. What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't.

One step to the sink, and I calmly begin to scrub my dripping hands, careful to pick and scrape the words sorrow and tragedy from where they're lodged beneath each fingernail.

Nevertheless, here it is: my Hideous Admission. I'll fess up and come clean. I'm out of the closet. I'm dead. Now don't hold it against me.

you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn't know they were stupid.

When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trash can, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.

Possiamo passare la vita a farci dire dal mondo cosa siamo. Sani di mente o pazzi. Stinchi di santo o sessodipendenti. Eroi o vittime. A lasciare che la storia ci spieghi se siamo buoni o cattivi. A lasciare che sia il passato a decidere il nostro futuro. Oppure possiamo scegliere da noi.

Why is it that I occur as a story to everyone except myself?

So long as my checks cleared, I'd no interest in figuring down to the penny how poor I always was. For the same reason, I've put off writing a book on writing. I didn't want to be faced with how little I could offer on the subject. How stupid I remained after all this time and practice.

Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better. In

My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.

The first step is to admit you're powerless. You have an addiction, and you can't stop. The first step is to tell your story, all the worst parts. Your lowest lows.

Kendimi gittikçe kendimin berbat bir taklidi haline geliyormuÅŸum gibi hissediyorum

For the rest of my life, a different me will pick up this book again and again, read every page and never feel as if I've ever finished it because I myself am never finished

Fuck me. I'm so tired of being me.

People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves.

Want to talk third-wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress.

Ich hatte die ganze Zeit gedacht, die beiden ziehen über meinen Großvater her, aber dann wurde mir klar, die meinten mich. Das heißt, natürlich meinten sie irgendeinen verrückten Killer, aber das war immer noch ich, die ich da in Häschenpantoffeln und Pelzmantel saß.

You are your own favorite hobby. You're an expert on you.