Quotes About Self-awareness

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

...Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.

I have a little baby. She knows who I am. My friends know. My family knows.

Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that's you and that isn't necessarily you.

I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery.

I didn't just want to be the one who was always looking around at the weird family members. I wanted to make my mistakes.

I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are.

Many people's unhappiness is rooted in the habitual role they play. While our family role may have made sense growing up, it often wreaks havoc in our adult lives.

The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under try not to go bald.

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

I mean, you know, while I'm acting on stage I'm ranking quite high, but in a room with Barack Obama I'm probably into negative digits. I never feel very famous.

I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.

If you don't define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.

We compensate for what we don't do internally by projecting and allowing our minds to be marinated in chronic fantasy.

Lauren Lola, A Moment's Worth

I won't say I'm the baddest, or portray that role, But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old.

In the cafe bathroom drinking free tap water Thinking; "Damn, I should've been a better father to my daughter"

The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.