Quotes About Self-awareness

I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things.

The best we can do is focus on what we have the power to improve in ourselves, and when it comes to body-love the one you are with.

We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.

If Stevie was being completely honest with herself—and she preferred not to be—David's concern felt very good. He was really worried about her, possibly more worried than she was about herself. He cared. It sent warm bubbles of pleasure through her system.

WOKE THE NEXT MORNING, WHICH WAS A GOOD START. WHEN things are bad, give yourself a point for everything.

Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks itself: this is more than it has a right to do, because literature may be one of those things which deserve to be found but not to be sought.

Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity.

So, yeah—I suppose I've done some bad things in my life. But I just can't see myself as a fucking pornographer.

A tragedy like this, we all blame ourselves.

4 Questions To Quickly Know Someone Well 1. What do you do in your spare time? 2. What would you do if you had a year to live? 3. What are you most proud of? 4. What do you want?

Adversity introduces us to ourselves.

If there's anything worse than visualizing your own death, it's knowing that you caused it.

Why do I go there? Where's my, what do you call it, "ego-defense mechanism"?

They didn't break me, I broke myself.

Man kann alles erzählen, nur nicht sein wirkliches Leben; – diese Unmöglichkeit ist es, was uns verurteilt zu bleiben, wie unsere Gefährten uns sehen und spiegeln, sie, die vorgeben, mich zu kennen, sie, die sich als meine Freunde bezeichnen und nimmer gestatten, daß ich mich wandle [...].

JOURNAL INTIME: Wenn ich einmal darin lese, zum Beispiel weil ich ein Datum brauche für unser Gespräch, so bin ich bestürzt: daß ich vor zwei oder fünf Jahren genu zu derselben Einsicht gekommen bin – nur habe ich sie dann wieder vergessen, weil es mir nicht gelungen ist, nach meiner Einsicht zu leben; ich habe das Gegenteil gelebt mit zäher Energie.

People with the same education as my own, speaking the same words that I do, loving the same books, the same music, the same paintings, are by no means immune from the danger of turning into monsters and doing things we would not have thought possible among the people of our own day, apart from a few pathological exceptions. If they are not immune, Why should I be so confident of my own immunity?

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

I stand still so as not to hear steps in my apartment, steps that are after all only my own. The whole thing isn't tragic, merely tiresome. You can't wish yourself good night . . . Is that a reason for marrying?

She was seriously disappointed, a child I was treating like a woman, or a woman I was treating like a child, I didn't know myself which it was.

Not being shaved gives me the feeling I'm some sort of plant and I keep involuntarily feeling my chin.

To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us

the direction taken by our vanity is not, as it appears to be, the direction towards our self, but away from our self.