Quotes About Self-awareness

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Aren't liars just storytellers who hate themselves?

There's nothing fucking worse than knowing that you're just like everybody else.

The tax for being mediocre comes from you and everyone else knowing that you are mediocre. It's a heavier tax than you'd think.

There's nothing fucking worse than knowing that you're just like everybody else. What a messed-up, lousy existence.

I'm not a good man, but I'm not a bad one, either.

LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

And Mary preserve our mistresses from seeing us as we see ourselves.

Does your mirror Bedevil you?

I'm only marginally qualified to be giving advice at all. My body mass index is certainly not ideal, I frequently use my debit card to buy things that cost less than three dollars because I never have cash on me, and my bedroom is so untidy it looks like vandals ransacked the Anthropologie Sale section. I'm kind of a mess.

The result of my not caring so much about what I say allows me to care more about how I say it.

They gave you that trophy so you wouldn't feel bad, not because you deserved it. You should know the difference.

Years later I realized that the way I had felt during those first few months was correct. I didn't deserve to be confident yet. I happen to believe that no one inherently deserves anything, except basic human rights, and not to have to watch an ad before you watch a trailer on YouTube. So

If my childhood, teens, and twenties were about wanting people to like me, now I want people to know me. So,

Throwing a tantrum feels good because you think you are ruining everyone's good time when you feel your very worst. But the truth is, you're not ruining their good time, you're just giving them another good story. I

Don't be closer to twice a friend's weight than to her actual weight," I told myself.

Throwing a tantrum feels good because you think you are ruining everyone's good time when you feel your very worst. But the truth is, you're not ruining their good time, you're just giving them another good story.

The result of my not caring so much about what I say allows me to care more about how I say it. P. 4

Once again, a pang of conscience tweaked the skin around my eyes.

I think sometimes when we grew up with a parent who is deeply flawed....we learn, subconsciously at least, to expect the worst from everyone else as well....Fortunately, it doesn't have to be that way forever. We can learn to see with new eyes if we try.

Why is it so hard to find liberation? Because our own minds are the source of our difficulties. Eliminate desire, accept personal shortcomings, and work toward a patient elimination of the mind's own hunger for outward satisfaction.

Before parents blame their children, they should first look to how their daughters and sons were raised.

I'm confident - confident in my skin, and I'm cool with my flaws and all that stuff.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.