Quotes About Self-awareness

Looking back, I sometimes wish I had done things differently. But if I had, I'm not sure that I wouldn't have proven to be my own worst enemy.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

How dare you suppose that I don't know who you are or what you are? That I don't understand what I see? Do you take me for some kind of besotted schoolboy? It is unspeakable ! You could weigh as much as a hippopotamus and shave your head and wear a wig and it wouldn't make a difference to me. I never said you were beautiful. I never thought it. I said that you were you .

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

I know I am awful. But how much more awful I should be without the Faith.

Tead, kui ma vaatan seda oma suurt kinniseotud jalga, siis ma ei saa lahti tundest, et mul on podagra, ja see tekitab hirmsat ?šampuseisu.

When it was done, Guy studied himself once more in the glass and recognized an old acquaintance he could never cut, to whom he could never hope to give the slip for long, the uncongenial fellow traveler who would accompany him through life.

I don't thinks she cares for anyone much. I love her. She's so like me. Do you? Is she? In looks and the way she talks. I wouldn't love anyone with a character like mine.

Everyone suspects themselves of at least one of the cardinal virtues...

Her life was the significant pause between two glances in a mirror. ( paraphrased from The Beautiful and Damned)

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

she knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long lesson but she had learned it. Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

I know myself, he cried, but that is all.

I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

I've got an adjective that just fits you.

Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

What was it? Why won't you tell me? I don't want to break down your illusions. My dear man, I have no illusions about you. I mean illusions about yourself.

It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.