Quotes About Self-awareness

each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse...

that icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...

I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you...

To be honest, i put myself in the category of people who are best able to give form to their ideas by arguing

Richard II is something of a plaster saint and knows it only too well. But it is a rewarding part, with lovely things to say, and I thought it suited my personality.

Anyone that damaged doesn't have a handle on what they need.

I wasn't normal, and no matter how hard I tried, I was never going to be. And though I didn't hear it at the time, a small part of me exclaimed "Good!

Mankind is one thing; a man's self is another. What that self is tangles itself knottily with what his people were, and what they came out of. Mine came out of Texas, as did I. If those were louts, they were my own louts.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

Lacey shrugged bashfully. "Do you think I'm superficial?" "Well, yeah." I thought of myself standing outside Becca's bedroom, hoping she'd take off her shirt. "But so am I," I added. "So is everyone."

At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don't believe that it's when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he's able to do them, and that he does them well.

I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.

It would be salutary, however, if we could retain our complacency in good conscience.

There are times when all the lies you have told about yourself to yourself just fall away. In your twenties, you tell yourself the lie that you are unusual, unprecedented, and interesting. You do this largely by purchasing things or stealing things. You adorn yourself with songs and clothes and borrowed ideas and poses. In your thirties, you tell yourself the lie that you are still in your twenties.

Life is unmanageable if you try to control stupidity other than your own.

we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves

If you're not eating, not caring about your body, letting it waste away, having your mind distorted by being constantly intoxicated, you can't be a serious exerciser. You can't do it.

He was the kind of guy who was always telling you what kind of guy he was.

Creamos y después, cuando la creación sale mal, queremos culpar a otros, cuando normalmente somos nosotros los responsables»

La culpa es una emoción hecha a la medida de cada persona

Al señor Evans le gustaría que dibujaseis vuestro autorretrato —anunció—. Algo que muestre cómo os veis a vosotros mismos. [...] No había dejado de usar el lápiz negro, y lo que había creado era muy revelador: un par de manos agarradas a unos barrotes que cruzaban de arriba a abajo la hoja. No había cara ni cuerpo. Sólo dedos aferrados a gruesos barrotes negros.

te sientes mejor cuando abordas directamente la raíz de tus problemas»

Es lo que hacía como terapeuta: pedir a los demás que buscaran respuestas en su mundo interior.

Creamos y después, cuando la creación sale mal, queremos culpar a otros, cuando normalmente somos nosotros los responsables», pensó.