Quotes About Self-awareness

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

I always knew I was a hit record just waiting to happen.

Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form the inside.

She looked long and lean and beautiful, and she was totally unaware of her looks as she called him. She had lived in a world of extraordinary-looking people for so long, and hers was a life of the mind rather than the beauty of face and body. She never thought about it, which somehow made her even more attractive.

Actually, being married to me probably would be something of a joke . . . but yeah, I mean it. What do you think?

The conclusion to be drawn is that I am happiest writing in small rooms. They make me feel comfortable and secure. And it took me years to figure out that I need to write in a corner. Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall … and then I can write.

and didn't know her own mind, but

I also recognize, however, that you can talk yourself blue in the face in a therapist's office about crucial failures of love or nurturance with little effect on the inner blackness you carry around with you.

Ben, everything is going to get better, he heard her say in the void. Really. It has to get better, because it can't get worse. Ben opened his eyes with a jolt, staring at himself in the mirror. That's not true, he suddenly thought. It can definitely get worse. As he nodded at Sara and pretended to smile, he understood that it was the first intelligent thought he had ever had.

I realize that I'm far less familiar with my own privates than with Guy's, and I've seen his only twice! I guess that's to be expected, since girls can't really look at ourselves without a reflection, whereas nothing's hidden with boys. It seems unfair, but there's also something neat about it being shrouded in secrecy.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!

A man should know when it is time to step aside.

But knowing me the way I do (now that sounds weird!)

anybody who started hunting for evidence of insanity in himself would certainly find plenty ? Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch 20

Los indicios de chifladura son bien sencillos de encontrar, y cuanto más ahondamos en nosotros mismos, más salen a relucir.

You can't walk out on yourself.

There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. Hey, YOU! are the sea's exact words. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.

HAVE YOU EVER REALLY EMBARRASSED YOURSELF? Don't answer that, stupid. It's a rhetorical question. Of course you've embarrassed yourself. Everybody has. I bet the pope has. If you were to say to the pope: "Your Holy Worshipfulness, I bet you've pulled some blockheaded boners in your day, huh?" he'd smile that warm, knowing, fatherly smile he has, and then he'd wave. He can't hear a word you're saying, up on that balcony.

Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen! Searching for strangers in... Dubai!

my feeling is that if you're not self-obsessed you're probably boring.

Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.

Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

I often cannot believe the things I do.

But you already know me pretty well by now! Helena said, and then directed her to her own profile page.