Quotes About Self-awareness

If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant.

The sentences which Plato says were inscribed in the shrine at Delphi are singularly unlike those to be found in holy places outside of Greece. Know thyself was the first, and Nothing in excess the second, both marked by a total absence of the idiom of priestly formulas all the world over. Something new was moving in the world, the

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.

I have tried hard - but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was no use anywhere else. What can one do when one finds out that one only fits into one hole? One must go back to it or be thrown out into the rubbish heap - and you don't know what it's like in the rubbish heap!

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

She wanted to surprise everyone by her dash and originality, but she could not help modeling herself on the last person she met, and the confusion of ideals thus produced caused her much perturbation when she had to choose between two courses.

Though he sought simplicity, he dread dulness. Dimly conscious that he was dull himself, he craved the stimulus of a quicker mind; yet he feared a dull wife less than a brilliant one, for with the latter how could he maintain his superiority?

She knew herself by heart too, and was sick of the old story.

Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.

He pocketed his watch with a milder look, and began to turn about busily in the empty shell of his own mind. His universe was a brilliantly illuminated circle extending from himself at it's centre to the exact limit of his occupations and interests.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

refurbished that image of herself in other minds which was her only notion of self-seeing

And how can anyone give you happiness who hasn't got it himself?

I can't bear to see myself in my own thoughts—I hate ugliness, you know

It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design.

Taking responsibility means you don't blame anyone else for your difficulties. It also means that you don't blame yourself.

He thought to himself, I'll never be this perfect again, an idea that made him sad.

It's sad to know you've gone through it all, or most of it, without… that the one body you'v wrapped your arms around, the only skin you've ever known, is your own… and that's it's dry, and not warm.

Writers have this schizophrenic ability to both participate in their lives and, at the same time, observe themselves participating in their lives.

I was never less alone than when by myself. Edward Gibbon

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference of age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and went for some minutes, I was concerned with the words following 'because' in the previous sentence, rewriting them over and over in my head until they seemed to be as close to the truth as it was possible for me to make them.

On his childhood] You know, I would like to think that I was much more poetic and sensitive than anybody else, but I don't think it was true.