Quotes About Self-awareness

I'm the least sexy person in real life.

Places you go in life - it opens your eyes up and you kind of understand who you are.

My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.

You can't go back again, even if you wanted to. But you can own your own life, mistakes and all.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

I'm 27 years clean, and when you get clean, you see things in a different way. It makes your life so much more manageable.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.

I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet

Emotions are there to enjoy life; but they are not used in self-reflection because they inhibit a proper reflection. They gunk us up.

We know we should be completely humble. We should stop thinking that we're very marvelous because we're not. We are interesting at best because we are a part of life.

Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.

Life is more or less the same wherever you go, because, wherever you go, there you are.

I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.

The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself.

I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

little life lesson 23: before making a snide comment about someone else's outfit, check to see if you're wearing knee boots with fringe. if you answer yes, drop it. just do.

I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.

I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.

our lives are stories we tell ourselves.

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.