Quotes About Self-awareness

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

If you're going to lick the icing off somebody else's cake you won't be nourished and it won't do you any good, or you might find the cake had caraway seeds and you hate them.

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

Sarei forse più sola senza la mia solitudine. Sono abituata al mio destino.

I live on the very edge of my charm.

You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel. (Something Borrowed)

I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.

I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

It was probably a function of getting older—I think we all become exaggerated versions of ourselves

That is one of the problems with getting older. There is a distinct lag time between how you see others and how you view yourself. I still thought of myself as looking twenty-four.

Somewhere deep down, I know I'm in the wrong. I know I'm rationalizing my actions, and worry I might even be manufacturing problems with Andy to get this result. I also know that I'm only inviting more trouble into my life. But for now, I feel good. Really good. Better than I've felt in a long, long time.

Estoy aprendiendo que la perfección no es lo que importa. De hecho, es precisamente lo que te puede destruir, si se lo permites.

The name he was called was not his own, but he did not know this, so answered to it perfectly well.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

You have to laugh at yourself sometimes, cause you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

Suddenly I could imagine all the things my body might do when I wasn't there to stop it and I felt so vile they might as well have happened. Maybe they had; they just hadn't left marks. I thought about a future full of blank spaces, and I knew I couldn't bear it. If that was the future, I had to escape it.

It's a cheval, said Mick, huge eyed. ...A mindless, soulless, sexless shell, genderless as a baby doll, she said to me--at me--whoever she was talking to, it wasn't me. She didn't believe I existed.

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

Not beautiful, not brilliant, no longer young.

You, she thought. Every flawed, scrawny

The days of my vanity are over and heaven knows they weren't happy enough to regret

Nowadays 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

People don't know. We don't know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people. We could say the depth of pain we feel for the lovers who've left us is because we knew them so well.