Quotes About Self-awareness

The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself: and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own object.

What if there's no such thing as PMS, and this is just my personality?

When blondes have more fun, do they know it?

There is none so troubled as one who thinks himself perfectly sane.

Be true to yourself, be kind to others, be honest, don't say anything if you have nothing nice to say

If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

Be careful who you pretend to be. You might become it.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

You have to be careful who you let define your good.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

It's all in your head -- you just have no idea how big your head is.

If we can't wake up to the fact that deep down inside we are good, then we deserve to remain asleep dreaming we are evil.

Do I think I'm a holy man? Sometimes.

Not in the clamour of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

People used to believe their life--or at least their life as a performer--was over at 28 or some ungodly age! God, when I think of myself back then, I had no idea who I was. I think I'm barely getting that under control now.

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

I just never really gave myself any credit. And because of that, nobody else did either. You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

Ever since I got married I've been thinking night and day about whose fault it was, and every time I think about it, out comes a new fault to eat up the old one; but always there's a fault left.

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

I will keep no further journal of that same hesternal torch?light ; and, to prevent me from returning, like a dog, to the vomit of memory, I tear out the remaining leaves of this volume...