Quotes About Self-awareness

Where're your papers?" "My what?" "Your I.D. -- draft card, social security, driver's license." "Don't have none. Don't need none. I already know who I am.

I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

Have you ever remarked, that people who live the most by themselves reflect the most upon others; and that he who lives surrounded by the million never thinks of any but the one individual — himself?

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

we want to remove our make-up and take off what is false and be real. But somewhere a piece of disguise that we forgot sticks to us … And so we walk around, a mockery and a mere half: neither having achieved being nor actors. RAINER MARIA RILKE

Here is a truth: people are very fascinated by themselves.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

He must give up his identification with original unconscious wholeness and voluntarily accept being a real fragment instead of an unreal whole.

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let this person be you.

Modesty: The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are.

Do you know me?

Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies."

To be a fashionable woman is to know yourself, know what you represent, and know what works for you. To be "in fashion" could be a disaster on 90 percent of women. You are not a page out of Vogue.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

Spirituality is... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.

Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.

I wondered why somebody didn't do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.

Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else's eyes.

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.

You can't hide your true colors as you approach the autumn of your life.

Surely God wrongs not men anything, but themselves men wrong.

I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older. But it turns out it's something you have to choose to do.