Quotes About Self-awareness

I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.

I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren!

Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.

For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

Little Zac had it easy - but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

If better were within, better would come out.

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my life, I also need to listen to what I have to say.

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true.

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.

[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.