Quotes About Self-awareness

I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

I'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

The best age is the age you are.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don't want-and what I want is to have fun.

Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.

Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting

Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.

So as through a glass and darkly The age long strife I see Where I fought in many guises, Many names - but always me.

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded too.