Quotes About Self-awareness

I don't think you'll get much argument that my personality could use amending.

There are people, even now, who manage to elude rightminding to the point where they enjoy their pleasures more if somebody else suffers to provide them.

Serve your own self for a while.

I wish I could say I wasn't proud of it-I know I wouldn't be proud of it when I quit being a temporary psychopath, but it wasn't so easy to stop enjoying it, either.

Sometimes it helps to remind them you're not a drone.

Coward, he thought again, meeting Eremei Fyodorovich's laughter-sweet eyes. He wondered briefly if Ian's would be as changeable as Elaine's or if they were green like his own.

We need each other, and we need literature, and we need knowledge-and we need very much, to try to be accountable for our own feelings and live up to our best selves. That reality might seem subjective and foolish to Farweather, but it seems objective and rational to me.

My taste was terrible, but it was not that bad.

I realized I was mirroring her, and intentionally broke the pattern by setting the mug down.

She was what she was. She did what she did. I didn't think she worried about the whys and wherefores too much, come to think of it.

Muire thought he might be a little too aware of his own quirky androgynous beauty. But he was nevertheless polite, and at last his teeth were cooked.

I don't go for the sexy bad girl thing anymore, but…damn.

glanced ostentatiously at my bangle. Blood alcohol content .01%, heart rate leveling off at 72 beats per minute, time 11:42 p.m.

I tried not to feel self-conscious about the sparkles floating under my skin.

The common factor linking all of my unhappy romances is me.

It must be awkward wearing one's whole interior life on display, for anyone to read.

There's nothing like being annoyed by different sentiences to make you really appreciate your own.

I didn't think too hard about anything, which, being me, was one of the most unnatural things I have ever done.

Knowing what to do doesn't help at all when you have a habit of justifying why today isn't the day to do the work—convincing yourself that tomorrow holds some promise today doesn't.

When you realize you've been one of the biggest barriers to your own change and you take full responsibility, you put yourself in a place of power.

realized I was living in a misery of my own making. I was living in shackles I had put on myself. I was confined by walls I had built—walls I was continuing to build, choice by choice.

I am capable of making great choices just for today.

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.