Quotes About Self-awareness

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.

Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

What a blessing it is to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.

Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person."

Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind.

As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.

I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such.

It's hard to make up your bed while you're still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.

I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don't expect me to tell you to stop.

We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

[T]he way he treats his body, you'd think he was renting.

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.

A l'assurance des acteurs oppose le charme des modèles qui ne savent pas ce qu'ils sont.

Rid myself of the accumulated errors and untruths. Get to know my resources, make sure of them.

Truth is within ourselves.