Quotes About Self-awareness

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

I can't stand people who laugh at other people. They'd get a bigger laugh if they laughed at themselves.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

If you're as intelligent as I think, you'll back away and give him time to examine his true desires. He's so busy fulfilling everyone else's; he has no idea what he wants." "I've been under the impression that he wanted me," Billie said coldly, "or I wouldn't be here.

As the formerly oppressed move into greater and greater freedom, they are often more wedded to the idea of themselves as oppressed than to the reality that they are freer than ever.

White racism had made my race the limit of my individuality. But now the new black consciousness I was learning from people like Gregory wanted me to voluntarily, even proudly, do the same thing that racism had done: make my race more important than my individuality

Do you feel bad enough now to make some changes or would you rather wait until you feel even worse?

We can't keep running from past mistakes...At some point, we need to accept what is, what was done, and move on.

The mind is a curious thing, Abby. We see what we want to see, we hear what we're hoping to hear. The one thing we all do well is fool ourselves.

She knew enough to take a few steps back from the relationship when things got particularly combustive.

Gee, is that my broken heart lying on the floor? Yes. Yes, it is.

Good God, woman. Hit the brakes on the freight train that is your mouth.

All right fine!" she snapped. "I'm in love with you. There. I said it. Now get over yourself." "You know, I think those are the words written on the Taj Mahal: 'I said it. Now get over yourself.' Some of the greatest love stories have started with those words.

We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others.

I looked in the mirror and stared at my reflection, until I was in the head-clearing trance that comes when you stare at something for a long time.

I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.

If I do something stupid, which is pretty much the whole time, I hate it. I just hate it

I'm not like that smart. I like, forget stuff all the time.

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

A question I get asked a lot is 'What is it like to play the straight guy all the time?' And I'm totally okay with it.

We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.