Quotes About Self-awareness

I know who I am. When you get comfortable with yourself like that and you know you're doing the right thing, you can take a lot of crap.

Not looking for excuses is the right thing to do. I have made a lot of mistakes, and I still make mistakes, but I am not ashamed to look for the reasons behind those mistakes.

I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think - really, truly think - that they're doing the right thing. And then they realize that when those ideals come knocking at their windowsill, a lot of times they will suddenly disavow those ideals.

I agree with myself on 80 percent of things, but when I look at myself in the mirror in the morning, I still have inner debates about the right thing to do.

You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

If you change because of fame, that's not the right thing. But if you change because of growth, that's normal... The whole fame thing hasn't hit me. And I hope it kind of doesn't.

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.

I have lots of friends, but I'm probably a terrible friend to all of them, even my family. I wouldn't be surprised if I found myself with no friends later on in life. My friends become my enemies.

I have my flaws, but I embrace them and I love them because they're mine.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.

This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. —William Shakespeare

It might be time to give yourself a pause. A break. You can't rush healing. And healing is more important than anything else, including finishing a book.

No man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one. —Nathaniel Hawthorne

There. You see? You're just figuring it out now, but I discovered a long time ago that the smarter you are, the more tempting it is to just let people imagine you. We move through each other's lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed. The popular jock. The mysterious new girl. But we're the ones who choose, in the end, how people see us. And I'd rather be misremembered. Please, Ezra, misremember me.

But we're the ones who choose, in the end, how people see us.

I'm so sorry. I always felt like there was something off about me, and now I know. I'm broken.' It wrecked me all over again to hear her say that. 'You're not broken.' 'Then how come I can't be fixed?' she asked, shaking as she held back to. 'If I'm not broken, how come no one can fix me?

She was determined to figure out who I wanted to be

The first part of saving your life is coming to understand how you endangered it by loving wrongly, and living under the rule of your passions.

I am responsible for myself. Every time I do the things I shouldn't do or fail to do the things I should do, I sin. The weight of our sins can seem overwhelming, so much so that we feel trapped by them in a dark wood of our own making. What makes it worse is the sense in contemporary culture that sin is either not real or no big deal.

People with healthy well-developed egos, especially those that are well-read, sometimes are the toughest for me to communicate with. It's because you are so smart that you will have some difficulty unlearning the things you must let go of before you'll be able to truly hear what I'm saying.