Quotes About Self-awareness

You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up.

It takes time to really understand your body shape and it's taken me years to know what I can and can't pull off.

It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.

For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.

When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings.

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises

I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am.

the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.

I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

Every time you see kid and hear kid, you think, man, I have to not sound like a kid.

Myself, mad, wise, I know the taste of burning tears.

A woman is a victim of her own emotions.

Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.

Then when she really thought about it she realized she'd been becoming different people for as long as she could remember but had never really noticed, or had put it down to moods, or marriage, or motherhood. The problem was that she'd thought that at a certain point she would be a finished product.