Quotes About Self-awareness

Interviewing Questions •What word would you say describes you best? •Do you have a personal motto or creed? •Do you have any heroes that you greatly admire? •What did people in high school think you were like? •What do you do that you wish you could stop doing?

harness your own power though what you keep to yourself

She is able to draw the line between who she is and who she is not on every level, so she is able to discriminate without ambivalence—whether it's about a skirt or a man that simply isn't right for her life. It also makes it easy for her to ignore the pressure to be all things to all people, and to appreciate the company of herself—with a book, a glass of wine

When they're talking about me they're letting someone else rest.

Sometimes you simply do the things you do, and it doesn't necessarily help to pick on the old you by proclaiming how smart the new you is. - The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir

Am I being too critical? That's what happens when you feel shitty about yourself. You turn into a bitch.

and held on to it. "Because I'm not looking for a wife

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

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Because, without knowing what is written up above, none of us knows what we want or what we are doing, and we follow our whims which we call reason, or our reason which is often nothing but a dangerous whim which sometimes turns out well, sometimes badly.

Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can it be?

Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?' Oh, I don't know. I'm a fat piece of shit, I guess.

I know there are people who believe that wherever you look, all you see is yourself. Episodes like this make me wonder it they aren't right. Dirty Wedding

There's nothing wrong with me"—I'm surprised I let those words out. But it's always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

Staring at his own face reflected in a cup of bitter karma. For

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you're not!

Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think your not.

Make this moment the moment of truth about yourself. You have been selling short all of your life.

If Morrow worked with herself she'd try and sit a few desks away.

There is a warmth and a comfort in hearing about people in worse situations than your own. Pity is a hollow virtue. I like it. It's a form of self-aggrandisement really, bigging yourself up by defining someone as below you. True-crime podcasts are usually great for that but sometimes you have to look really hard to find anyone down there.

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don't think they can become men

A man is the stories he tells about himself, and most of those stories are lies. Never look too closely. If you uncover his lies, it'll humiliate you both. Best just to live with the bullshit.

He was done with every lie he'd ever allowed himself to believe, every lie he'd ever lived, every lie.