Quotes About Self-awareness

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

For a while, I thought the great disappointment of my life was that I don't have a family of my own. Then it dawned on me: That's not what I think; that's what married people think.

It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?

For so long I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.

I have never in all my life considered you other people.

My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.

Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.

This is the first day of the rest of my life. So why is my hair sticking up like a cockerel?

I'm making a kind of a memoir of certain aspects and times in my life. Now that I'm older I can look back and analyze some things, and see the root of things.

He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

'I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive...

I sort of get tired of myself sometimes. When you're busy, your life becomes relatively small. But I don't really get tired of talking to other people.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.

You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.

That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.

Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don't know. A little mellowing.

Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.

If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.

The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.