Quotes About Self-awareness

I go online all the time, I just don't read about myself. I read a fashion website called Go Fug Yourself. I actually correspond with the Fug Girls and that's great.

I had my trousers on at all times.

I look in the mirror and I see the lines, but I don't care. It's a good time. I don't know why it's such a good time, but it's a good time.

Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble.

By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?

I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

For the longest time, I never thought I was intimidating to guys, but I'm kind of finding out that maybe there is some tiny thread of intimidation.

I'm not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don't give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.

What we do is inherently self-centered and sort of narcissistic. It's hard to really be thinking about myself all of the time when I have a dog who needs me to be caring for him twenty-four seven.

We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?

If you think that you did everything and know everything and that everything has been done perfectly well, then it's time to retire.

Now I wonder all the time how you go back after something like that. Whether we can ever be friends again, or if what we had is broken into pieces. Not because of her, but because of me.

I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons.

My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.

How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?

Every time you enter a space, you are on public display. Nothing is private.

The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.

I'd like to think that I'm getting slightly more mature as time goes on, but I don't know if my fiancee would necessarily agree.

How many women are ready to admit that they are capable of changing the course of their existence by simply taking time to think?

One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.