Quotes About Self-awareness

Interesting people aren't interested in appearing interesting

Sincerity that pure was impossible to include in my life then, and I had to turn away. It was like looking at the sun.

I don't know myself as well as I used to .

I like to visit with the exhausted girl who once was me

We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.

vista no wider than their own sunbonnets.

It is one thing to suspect yourself of going mad; it is another thing entirely to discover your suspicions are correct.

Some days I think I'm too stupid to be let out on my own, and then there's the days that prove it.

I had uncovered a widely held but overlooked attachment: our attachment to the view that every problem must have a solution. We delude ourselves that we can think our way out of a problem or we see it as a matter of finding the right person to advise us. We become beggars for our problems, asking numerous people for an opinion. So often, we refuse to relax until a problem is fixed, only to discover our inability to relax was most of the problem.

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one's self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

Circe]: What is the matter? Does my kiss offend you? Do I have bad breath from hunger? Have I neglected to cleanse my sweaty armpits?

Part of peace-making is acknowledging that we can't know everything about ourselves, and sometimes we reveal things to others that we are not ready to accept.

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

The rest of us become narrow and mean when we live falsely. I'm sick to death of living falsely. I've been doing it for years.

A girl, like you—' 'Like me? There are no girls like me.' I

I wondered whether the writer of that one had once wished she was Lizzy, but feared that she was more like Mary; I know I did.

Insomnia isn't really to do with not being able to sleep; it's about not having given ourselves a chance to think.

I am not my sickness; I have a condition that can wander all lonely and cloudlike into view from time to time. I (the whole me) can choose to sit back and witness the clouds, let them be, let them pass.

To everyone I'm just the girl who talks too much and tries too hard, when really I'm just trying to quiet this battle in my mind for the hour.

Thank Me for the difficulties in your life, since they provide protection from the idolatry of self-reliance.

You had to make yourself know about the good things

Dorkdom isn't something you can choose. It's something you are. But instead of dividing the world up into dorkside and darkside, I've realised that we all have a little bit of dork inside us.

Can we have a time-out on the self-criticism for the rest of the evening?" "Not the rest of the evening. I can do about half an hour and then force of habit takes over.