Quotes About Self-awareness

Q: What are your sexual preferences? A: Well, I'm neither one thing nor the other particularly. Q: Why not? A: I am fortunate in that I am apparently reasonably undersexed or something. I know people who lead really outrageous lives. I've never said that I was gay and I've never said that I wasn't. A lot of people would say that I wasn't because I never do anything about it. What I'm trying to say is that I am a person before I am anything else.

Oh, dear, there are so many things we're brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you... Why don't you travel? Why don't you get a master's degree in...something? Why don't you try doing this, that, or the other? Well, you're probably not doing it because it's not right. Why worry about it? God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.

I think if you have to think about anything very long, you've obviously done yourself an injury, as it were.

Was this the triumph of self-knowledge: to suffer more lucidly?

People think they are individuals because they use the word ''I'' so often.

I find everything boring, therefore I'm fascinating.

If we can't control our conscious responses, what chance do we have against the influences we haven't recognized?

People think they are individuals because they use the word I so often, Patrick commented.

humility was the ultimate arrogance

Why had he said, 'Some combination of pride and terror'? Did he still think it was uncool to admit to any enthusiasm, even in front of his greatest friend?

The question filled Patrick with the horror which assailed him when he was asked to consider another person's feelings. How was Debbie? How the fuck should he know? It was hard enough to rescue himself from the avalanche of his own feelings, without allowing the gloomy St Bernard of his attention to wander into other fields.

It is as if we want to believe the lie. Perhaps we blame ourselves because in a strange way it helps us feel as if we have more control. If we are responsible for whatever went wrong, for whatever hurt us, we might be able to figure out how to keep it from happening again.

Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.3 What do you see in your own heart?

Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair.

At this point, we know that worry and fear are more about us than about the things outside us. They

Anger takes everything personally, as if everything is an intentional act to make your life miserable.

The fastest way to bring a wrecking ball to our skewed interpretations is through confession.

People say that things like this happen in slow motion, as though you suddenly become an astronaut in the antigravity chamber of your own life. This wasn't true for me. Things were speeding up instead, and I did my best to slow them down in my mind.

only as long as we can laugh at ourselves are we nobody else

I might not be human. I might be nothing more than a set of algorithms, running on a spacesuit with a corpse inside it. But I'm not a monster.

Three things destroy a man: considering his own deeds to be really great, forgetting the sins that have been committed, considering his own opinion to be the highest.

Maybe taking ourselves for somebody else means that we cannot bear to see ourselves as we are.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.