Quotes About Self-awareness

But it is INTERESTING trying to get a handle on one's own subjectivity--something to think about, to play around with, and what's more fun than that?

Everything runs away, beginning with who you are, and at some indefinable point you come to half understand that the ruthless antagonist is yourself.

the complete man - as unimpressive as he is unimpressed

I know the kind of man I am and the kind of writer. I have my own kind of bravery, and please, let's leave it at that.

Todo el tiempo que estuvimos separados yo estuve pensando en ella, pero un día me dijo: 'Mis sentimientos han cambiado, qué puedo hacer, ya no aguanto a Bruce'. Como si fueran sus sentimientos los que la controlaran a ella y no al revés. Como si sus sentimientos estuvieran fuera de ella y no bajo su control, como un autobús que uno tiene que esperar.

Your average deformity sufferer has a love-hate thing with mirrors: you need to see how things are progressing, but you also hate it that they're progressing.

Realism: if Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.

he cannot close his eyes without being subjected to the diplopic double image of his lover's steady, supplicating and aging (!?) eyes, and then his own eyes vertical above her, darting from side to side, more concerned with how he is seen than with what he sees.

But the point was that I realized, on some level, that whatever a potentially 'lost soul' was, I was one -- and it wasn't cool or funny.

My feelings just started to change. It wasn't all him. It took time, but after time passed I felt something was missing, and I'm selfish, I can only feel like I'm giving more than I'm getting for so long, then things change.

Why worship God when you can worship yourself? says the "celebrity.

No one but a fool is always right.

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society: or fear of oneself. He was not afraid of himself. But he was quite consciously afraid of society, which he knew by instinct to be a malevolent, partly-insane beast.

But all our wisdom had been vanity. I could no longer feel superior to

A critical person seldom recognizes his own shortcomings, only those of others (Matthew 7:3).

Blaise Pascal is reported to have said, "All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Focusing inward on our misery traps us in our own private dungeon, and we lock ourselves away from those richer interiors that provide the healing and wisdom we need.

in his mind nearly everyone seemed to be noticing him in the same way that he was focusing on himself.

self-actualization.

I'm not good at relationships I always manage to find the flaws sometimes in others but mostly my own. I foretell the ending then go and create the cause save myself and end up alone

underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.

I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.

I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.