Quotes About Self-awareness

Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.

I'm the princess in an ivory tower, except every brick is made of history, and I built this prison myself.

I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.

With these words Jake had let go of me. Which proved that he knew more about why I was leaving than even I did. I had believed that I was running away from what had happened. I did not know, not until I met Nicholas days later, that the whole time I was really running towards what was yet to be.

Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.

Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?

When you're hurting deeply, you go inward.

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

Only the liar knows he's lying

Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts...

I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.

For the first time in my life I begin to understand how a parent my hit a child--it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

The point is, if someone abandons you, it may be less about you and more about them.

You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

How far can a person go... and still live with himself.

Some think that they are incredible but are actually un-credible. Do you work, master your craft...

I don't have any babies or ambition. I have it all!

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Yes, I have a good sense of humor to sort of last a long time in show business, and I think to be able to find comedic value in who you are and the people that you work is always a good thing.

I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.