Quotes About Self-awareness

I don't think villains think they are villains.

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.

Next to my mom, I'm actually a shrinking violet.

I am very chill and comfortable in my own skin, and because of this, I believe it is exactly what is needed when you are with a strong woman. My wife is no shrinking violet in her own right. As a result, you have to know when to push, when to pull, when to let it go, and when to stand firm.

Anything that controls my state of mind I never really want to do because I always want to be under control. That might be part of me being a Virgo. I never want to do something that stops me from being in control of who I am and my actions.

If astrology is real, I guess I'm a pretty quintessential Virgo.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.

Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.

For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool.

I loathe and detest people who pretend they don't care what people think about them as if that is a virtue, when it is simply rude.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

I like to think of myself as a virtuous troll.

I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.

I sometimes forget that my vision of the world is not remotely anyone else's.