Quotes About Self-awareness

i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

I have always been aware of how I break. I know what kind of situations will break me. I know what kind of people will do it. I know how much it will hurt.

I am having a fucking great time, and the amazing thing is that I realize it even as it's happening.

It wouldn't be fair to ask you to be around me when I'm so sick of being around me.

you say you do not see it. you say I am too hard on myself. but I have lived with myself for too many years. I know exactly how hard I am.

Maybe this is what alone really is — finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.

Wishing the best for you, knowing it was the worst of me.

Do you really exist? I blurt out. Not at all, he says with a smile, I've known that since I was four.

We all think we are actors, given our scripts. But really? You're the playwright. You're the composer.

I have to keep reminding myself -- this is not me . It is chemistry. It is biology. It is not who I am.

I can't stand being mean. People playing games. I want to guard myself against it, but I make a shitty guard for my own heart. I would rather lose the game than play it. I would rather be hurt than be mean. Because I can live with myself if I'm hurt. I don't think I could live with myself if I were mean.

The kissing was supposed to take me away from all the problems. All the thoughts. All the doubts. But now when I kissed her, I was always measuring how much of her was there. And I was wondering how much of me was left.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.

We are such wonderful idiots, Peter thinks.

Like everyone else, Avery considers his inner world to be a scary, convoluted, inscrutable place. It is one thing to show someone your best, cleanest version. It's quite another to make him aware of your deeper, jagged self.

It's hard being in the body of someone you don't like, because you still have to respect it.

We want to whisper to him that the only way to free yourself from shame is to realize how completely arbitrary it is—just what he was saying a day ago.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it.

I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one, either.

But I have lived myself for too many years. I know exactly how hard I am.

Ik wil dat ze kon zien hoe geslagen hij is. De uitdrukking op zijn gezicht, zijn leven staat op instorten. Want dan zou ze misschien beseffen, al het was het maar een fractie van een seconde, dat hoewel de wereld haar niet interesseert, de wereld wel geïnteresseerd is in haar.

Going through the motions gives you plenty of time to examine the motions

Breathe, we want to tell Avery. Feel yourself breathe. Because that is as much a part of your body as anything else. Avery, we whisper, you are a marvel. And he is. He may never believe it, but he is.