Quotes About Self-awareness

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

Know your own happiness.

Badly done, Emma!

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge. -Elinor Dashwood

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

I am amazingly absent; I believe I am the most absent creature in the world.

Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest with themselves.

My illness, I well knew, had been entirely brought on by myself by such negligence of my own health, as I had felt even at the time to be wrong. Had I died, it would have been self-destruction.

one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses! Oh Lord! There is not getting away from one's self

Do not deceive yourself; do not be run away with by gratitude and compassion.

I shall be sure to say three dull things as soon as ever I open my mouth, shan't I? (looking round with the most good-humoured dependence on every body's assent)— Do not you all think I shall?" Emma could not resist. "Ah! ma'am, but there may be a difficulty. Pardon me— but you will be limited as to number—only three at once.