Quotes About Self-awareness

No matter where you go, there you are. [- Uriel to Harry Dresden]

I poke at my skull with a finger. It didn't feel soft or anything. I didn't feel insane. But if you'd really lost it, would you have enough left to know? Crazy people never thought they were crazy. I've always talked to things, I said. And to myself. Good point, myself agreed with me. Unless that means you've been nuts all along. I don't need wiseass remarks, I told myself severely. There's work to do. So shut up.

Know your enemy. Know yourself. Only then may you achieve victory.

You've got it backward, Harry," he said. "You are a soul. You have a body.

I do not perceive myself to be mad. But if I were truly mad, would I be able to tell?

No one is an unjust villain in his own mind

I'm getting dumber by the minute," I confirmed. "Ask anybody.

Remember who you are. This creature wants to take it from you. Do not let him.

The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster." "Meaning what, precisely?" "That it reflects a great deal more of yourself to your senses than you probably know.

I was staring into a mirror, and I didn't like what I saw there.

My mouth kept running without checking in with my brain. My heart maybe, but not my brain.

I used to think I loved it. But now I realize that it's just dependency.

You think you're funny." "Oh, I know I'm funny. Unappreciated, but funny.

but once you put all the stupid things I do aside, I'm really not all that interesting. I like reading, staying home, going on walks with my dog—it's like I'm already a retiree. Who wants to hear about that? Especially when I would have to scream it over the music to which no one dances.

Hell's bells," I muttered. "Harry, you idiot, when will you learn not to victory gloat?

and to my dog, without whom I would not be reminded daily that I am essentially little more than a ridiculous human being who has somehow swindled somebody into paying me to write down conversations with my imaginary friends.

Tavi eventually came to the conclusion that he was sulking.

And just because I don't go to bed with everything with a vagina doesn't mean I'm repressed.

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters.

Arrogance," I said. "I feel stupid." "Good," Michael said. "It's good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn.

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

I wonder what it says about me that pizza has been one of the better long-term investments in my career.

I feel stupid." "Good," Michael said. "It's good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn.

telling myself only hours ago that reason had to guide my actions, my decisions, if I was to keep control of myself?