Quotes About Self-awareness

So young a child, said the gentleman sitting opposite to her, (he was dressed in white paper,) ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!

GörüneceÄŸin gibi ol,'...ya da daha bir sadeleÅŸtirirsek...'Kendinin baÅŸkalar?na görünebileceÄŸinden farkl? olmad???n?, önceden olan ya da olmuÅŸ olabilen halinin de, baÅŸkalar?na farkl? görünmüÅŸ olacak olan daha da önceki halinden farkl? olmad???n? asla zannetme.

But that's just the trouble with me. I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

Don't interrupt. I'm going to tell you all your flaws.

Habla en francés siempre que no encuentres la palabra en inglés para nombrar alguna cosa, saca ligeramente los dedos de los pies al andar y ¡Recuerda siempre quién eres!.

You may have noticed that I'm not all there myself.

Qui siamo tutti matti. Io sono matto. Tu sei matta. Come lo sai che sono matta? disse Alice. Altrimenti non saresti venuta qui, disse il Gatto.

No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We're all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they'd like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance. A fissure forms in the vessel. I'm cracking open.

See, now I don't know whether to be all 'Yay!' because you're empowered or sad because you're having delusional almost-sex with an imaginary boyfriend.

We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.

For the first time, I notice the lax skin at Mrs. Nightwing's jaw, the fine down that lies upon her cheek like the imprint of a childe's hand, and I wonder what it must be like watching yourself soften under the years, unable to stop it. what it's like measuring your days in perfecting girls' curtsies and drinking nightly glasses of sherry, trying to keep up with the world as it pulls you spinning into the furure, knowing you are always one step behind it.

Because I'm not enough, she thought. That was the terrible echo shouting up at her: Fraud, fraud, fraud. She got drunk and talked too much and danced on tables. She had a temper and a sharp tongue, and she often blurted out things she instantly regretted. Worst of all, she suspected that was who she truly was—not so much a bright young thing as a messy young thing.

I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.-A Great and Terrible Beauty

I'm whining. It's unattractive, but I find I'm powerless to stop

You must work always to understand your own heart so that it cannot be used against you.

Looking for truth makes a man hafta look at himself along the way.

Yes, after all, if I were to join you, I might enjoy myself, and wouldn't that be a shame? Please, don't spare me another thought.

I am a lot of things, not all of them noble.

For the last time, I'm not a witch." Miss Lillian smiled and patted Theta's cheek. "Keep telling yourself that, dear.

People will be who they are, and there is not enough magic in any world to change that.

Duff's little moans traveled up her spine, made her head buzz. And another thought grabbed hold: She was doing this. She had the power to do this. THat she could be both completely vulnerable and totally in control was mind-blowing.

It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body. You were only as cursed as you allowed yourself to be.

Creen que me conocen, pero no es así.

Oh, why should it bother her? But it did. It wasn't so much that Evie wanted Jericho as she wanted him to keep wanting her. It was utterly selfish, she knew. More about her vanity than anything else.