Quotes About Self-awareness

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straightaway you take away his happiness.

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for.

However mean your life is, meet and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

Every day, we wake up empty and scared." So start by accepting that it's okay to suffer or to feel depressed at times. And then learn to distinguish between the pain that is unavoidable and the suffering that we create for ourselves.

Although a tirelessly productive author, Johnson considered himself disgracefully lazy—believing that only Presto, a dog belonging to his friend Hester Thrale, might truly be thought lazier.

The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.

Then we shall riseAnd view ourselves with clearer eyesIn that calm region where no nightCan hide us from each other's sight.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

The only excuse for self indulgence is to learn that the objects we crave are overrated and don't satisfy our hunger, which is spiritual.

It was miserable work, with little reward, and I learned much about the limitations of human kindness, and in particular my own.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you, with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critic on the last. —Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

My dick is a macho shithead but the rest of me is a sensitive, caring and gentle guy.