Quotes About Self-awareness

He was well aware of what an ass he was. Only Roman could tolerate him, really. Stupid, charming bastard.

It was like a disease. A Phoebe-Pace-inspired disease, this need to speak so much—to explain himself.

There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.

Today, the public mindset is beginning to shift away from a medical model of disability towards a recognition that context and self-awareness as a learner both play a huge role in whether any given condition is disabling or not.10

When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.

Which all goes to show that it is hard to hide how you feel, when mirrors are out there everywhere, just waiting to pounce.

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

I can't help being a gorgeous fiend. It's just the card I drew.

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

Don't worry if they say you're crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It's a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.

Quite collected at cocktail parties, meanwhile in my head I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.

From Camus' notebooks … "an intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Well, my rationalization for today is that if "an intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself" the same could be said for masturbation or even better for suicide

It was pretty rocky last month but I didn't want to depress you with my depressions. I lack contentment. No. I lack a mother.

Today, my small child, Joyce, love your self's self where it lives.

I'm lost. And it's my own fault. It's about time I figured out that I can't ask people to keep me found.

You MUST know You to do YOU!

The Asterians didn't call themselves anything special, because when everyone else refers to you as the shining people, you really don't have to do it yourself.

Something was wrong with him - and down deep he'd known his whole life. Maybe the wards had even said something. (You are not right, boy.) Maybe the other children had. (What's wrong with you?) Maybe it had happened while he watched one child after another walk off with a family from the Eastern Villages, with a merchant or a farmer. (You know no one will ever take you, right?) Maybe he'd even said it to himself.

That was before Iris understood that there is a difference between the things you have in your head and the things you present to the world—that sometimes you have to fit yourself into certain shapes, ones other people can easily name.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.

Thank Goodness I have walked in circles long enough to wear the soles of my shoes so thin that the diamonds on which I stand can now get my attention

You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours.