Quotes About Self-awareness

Keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is. ANDY ROONEY

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?

I had learned from my reading that you can do really awful things when you are bored, things that are bound to make you miserable. In fact, you do them in order to become miserable, so you won't have to be bored anymore.

It was soon painfully clear that when he looked at me what he mainly saw was a cute animal, clownish and a little stupid, something like a very small dog with buckteeth. He had no inkling of my true character, that I was in fact grossly cynical, moderately vicious, and a melancholy genius, or that I had read more books than he had.

I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where to start.

Narcissists are said to be in love with themselves. But this is a fallacy. Narcissus is not in love with himself. He is in love with his reflection. There is a major difference between one's True Self and reflected-self.

The scary part is I knew exactly how bad you were for me and yet that didn't stop me from loving you

I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.

You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

Most days it feels like I am watching a movie where the sound isn't in sync, the speed is all wrong. Either I'm moving too quickly and the world is dripping along, or the world is moving too quickly, cosmic, and I'm oozing like a slug barely able to pull my own weight. It's best if I keep moving because if I stopped and stood still people would see me shaking.

Ben yaln?zca saÄŸa sola dola??p durmaktan b?kt?m, can s?k?nt?s? içinde yüzmek istemiyorum art?k, bir nedeni olmadan mutlu olmak da istemiyorum; günün birinde gözlerimi aç?p hepiniz gibi olduÄŸumu, ilk baÅŸta bildiÄŸimden fazla bir ÅŸey bilmediÄŸimi görmek istemiyorum!

What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.

You should have been a poet. I was (Gesture towards his rags.) Isn't that obvious?

What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.

Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Even if they are unhappy—very unhappy—it is astonishing how easily they can be prevented from finding it out, or at any rate from attributing it to any other cause than their own sinfulness.

I do not greatly care whether I have been right or wrong on any point, but I care a good deal about knowing which of the two I have been.

He does not like this branch of his profession — indeed he hates it — but will not admit it to himself. The habit of not admitting things to himself has become a confirmed one with him. Nevertheless there haunts him an ill defined sense that life would be pleasanter if there were no sick sinners, or if they would at any rate face an eternity of torture with more indifference. He does not feel that he is in his element. The