Quotes About Self-awareness

Smart man to admit he's an idiot

Why does our sense of individuality prevent us from correcting our weaknesses?

You cannot see yourself, can you, Anne? Except in a mirror, and there everything is backwards.

Lara and Les came to know something that few understood in the late sixties and seventies: no one can help a troubled person who doesn't think they need it.

Les came to know something that few understood in the late sixties and seventies: no one can help a troubled person who doesn't think they need it.

no one can help a troubled person who doesn't think they need it. Indeed

Sense withdrawal means to accept the fact that external stimuli can never truly fulfill us. Once that is accepted, we are free to realize that what we were desperately looking for on the outside was present inside all along.

I have an allergy to dogma, including my own.

One must take care that one's life does not begin to resemble the plot of a novel.

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.

If the hour comes, and there's no-one to beg or blame but yourself, you learn that what we have in the end is just a handful more than what was born in us. That unique handful, what we add to what we are, is the only story of us that isn't told by someone else.

I take everything personally—that's what being a person is all about.

When you're sober and fit, it's the world that's fucked.

If we do not suffer with our pain, then we have not learned about anything but ourselves.

If the hour comes, and there's no one to beg or blame but yourself, you learn that what we have in the end is just a handful more than what was born in us. That unique handful is the only story of us that isn't told by someone else

Jealousy has no mirror, and resentment has a tin ear for the truth.

You can only ever be yourself. The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.

Some people always manage to make us feel sorry for them, no matter how stupid and angry we feel about it after. They're the canaries, kind of, in the coalmines of our hearts.

he'd been able to deal with that pain because he'd accepted his own part in causing it

is necessary to do the wrong thing for the right reasons. The important thing is to be sure that our reasons are right, and that we admit the wrong—that we do not lie to ourselves, and convince ourselves that what we do is right.

I take everything personally—that's what being a person is all about.

Mirrors on those pillars, and on much of the free wall space, provided the patrons with one of the bar's major attractions: the chance to inspect, admire, and ogle others in a circumspect if not entirely anonymous fashion. For many, the duplication of their own images in two or more mirrors at the same time was not least among the pleasures of the pastime. Leopold's was a place for people to see, to be seen, and to see themselves in the act of being seen

her. I rode the elevator down to the foyer alone with the crowd of my mirror selves: beside and behind me, still and silent, not one of them was able to meet my eye.