Quotes About Self-awareness

He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

I look in the flames and see the hotter me.

consistent—like plain chocolate bars, the same all the way through. Those quizzes assumed that if people were brave in one situation, they'd be brave in another, but Sugar didn't think this was true. Or maybe it was just her. Maybe this was

I squat there and think about how you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that's hard to unravel.

you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them.

The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly.

squat there and think about how you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that's hard to unravel.

You don't always see how much other people are shaping you.

I don't know if she is outside of me or inside of me, but she is here. I feel her love for me. I feel my love reach her.

Brain ablaze. Feel like we are unearthing something and finding ourselves, knowing ourselves, stripping odd layers of our upbringing like old paint. Can't write about it fully yet. Don't understand it. I only know that when F leaves and B and I talk I feel like I am saying - and hearing - the first wholly honest words of my life.

You don't realize how much effort you've put into covering things up until you dig them out.

I think about how you get trained early on as woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two in a terrible tangle that's hard to unravel.

You get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that's hard to unravel.

The key is, she said, to disengage yourself from all your ideas about what is "natural.

Between our call and today he talked himself out of me, and now he is coming back around. I squat there and think about how you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that's hard to unravel.

When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. And then I realized I was somebody.

always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. And then I realized I was somebody.