Quotes About Self-awareness

Everything makes me nervous." Stevie thought a moment. "Well . . . not everything. But man-eaters definitely make me nervous." "But tigers are man-eaters . . . and you're half tiger." Stevie stared out the front window for several seconds ruminating on that bit of information before admitting, "Dear God. I'm terrified of myself.

Stevie stared out the front window for several seconds ruminating on that bit of information before admitting, "Dear God. I'm terrified of myself.

hate me, too . . . because I'm always right. I understand how painful that must be for others who aren't always right.

Good Lord! Get off the cross, we need the wood.

There is a direct relationship between our personal experience with the Lord and how we see ourselves. The closer we grow to him, the more clear and complete becomes our vision of who we are, who we have always been, and who we may become.

God must feel the same at the end of a long day. Stop trying to make Me happy with all that ritual up and down, all the good works and psychic genuflecting. All the good works in the world will not bring you and closer to Me. Stand still. Let Me look at you and find Myself reflected. Maybe for a brief moment, you thought it was all about you, but surprise, Creation. It is all about Me.

The truth is that what we feel eventually comes out in our words and then our actions. If we are not careful, the actions we take when we are hurting will eventually become our legacy.

He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .

At some point in the evening it becomes clear to me that I spent the day refusing to do anything I'd planned to do in the morning.

I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.

Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron

Don't believe what anyone tells you about yourself.

And remember, it's always her fault. That's your story and you're sticking to it.

When you react emotionally, it gives him a feeling of control. And if you react emotionally frequently, over time he will come to see you as less of a mental challenge. If he can't predict how you'll always react, you remain a challenge.

Many people lack the basic equipment to be in a relationship and there's nothing you can do to change it.

Many people lack the basic equipment to be in a relationship and there's nothing you can do to change it. You can't take a skunk and dip it in perfume and hope it becomes a puppy. Eventually, the perfume will wear off and you'll still have a skunk on your hands.

As Simone de Beauvoir observed, we must prefer to fathom rather than flatter ourselves.

I try not to expect people to be who I wish them to be, rather than who they are.

if she hadn't been at peace, then at least she wasn't at war with herself.

What stupid children they had been, to cause each other such pain and then to hold on to their wounds so fiercely. She

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

There was so much that he didn't know, so much that she didn't feel that she could tell him. So much she'd never told him because she understood him better than he'd understood himself. He had always wanted to give her everything. But it had been an everything that revolved around him.

She'd never thought of herself quite that way. She was more an idiosyncratic ignorer of established boundaries than a glutton for the new and the uncharted. But perhaps they were one and the same, each one implying the other.

Of course. Now she saw the error of her ways. She had been so consumed by the Vigenère cipher that she—horrors—hadn't been eating properly. A quick glance at the mirror told her that she was down to only one point three chins. No wonder her brain was so slow and unwieldy, like a steam engine on the last shovel of coal. Two more madeleines and she felt like a new woman.