Quotes About Self-awareness

My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now, because I don't like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me I'm not Nicki Minaj when I'm with them.

You were protecting yourself. You wrapped yourself in armor and pretended to be invulnerable. Growing up inside that armor twisted you a bit out of true, but it doesn't matter. The essentials are all there." She searched my face. "The armor's getting too small, Aud. You have to choose.

If she kept moving, she didn't have to think. She didn't have to see into herself. If she kept moving, no else could see into her, either.

Be present, stay alert: the first rule of self-defense. But then I wouldn't be able to shut out the noise and stink and tension around me.

She stepped to one side of her feelings like stepping out of her clothes.

I wanted them to learn something unique to them, that came from them, not an artificial overlay that would evaporate in the first flash of fear adrenaline if they were ever threatened.

She walked in the evening through her domaine, as aware of it as if her own body.

When a time came to carve her name, would it be Dawnged, girl of Ystrad, T´ywi or Tâl, payment to Elen, or would she one day find her true name?

She could smell herself: rich, sleek, ready.

No one knew me; there was no one to compare my behaviour in the shop with my behaviour at other times. I could be fluid and responsible only to myself.

There is one thing Margaret Thatcher said that I agree with: if you have to tell people you're important, you're not.

Sometimes I think I know you, know who you are deep down, better than you know yourself. You think efficiency is the key to your personality, but it's not. You're a sensualist, a hedonist of the first order. Look at the way you cradle that cup, the way you tilt your face to the sun like a flower." "It's efficient. Absorbing heat means my body doesn't have to create its own." "But it's also delicious.

Oh, you won't kill yourself, you're too self-centered and you're too stubborn to go mad. So that means you'll have to cope.

An intrusive leap, an apparently inexplicable impulse, can save your life or someone else's, but it's rare to find a person who can trust their instincts to that degree. You have to be able to get out of your own way. It's always fascinating to watch.

Hild looked down at the water, at herself, a woman. A woman who knows. Standing like a queen. Light of the world. Queen of the world.

The shadows around her loomed longer and darker. She didn't know what her light was.

I could probably beat you at pool." She tucked a strand of hair behind her golden ear. "No, you couldn't." "I beat you at darts." "We're getting off the subject." "You just hate being beaten." "Call it one of my imperfections.

Zichzelf veroordelen is niet minder pretentieus dan zichzelf vergeven.

It is easy to believe that we partake of certain virtues when we share in the defects they imply.

Chi si lamenta dell'angustia dell'ambiente in cui vive pretende che siano gli avvenimenti, i vicini, i paesaggi a fornirgli la sensibilità e l'intelligenza che la natura gli ha negato.

Vulgarity consists in striving to be what we are not.

Whoever is curious about how to measure his stupidity should count the number of things that seem obvious to him.

He who accepts the rank which nature assigns him does not turn into the mere absence of what he is not. Even the most modest thing has, in its proper place, immeasurable worth.

My truth is the sum of what I am, not a simple summary of what I think.