Quotes About Self-awareness

Authenticity is not something you have—it's something you choose. In

Somewhere, some place inside myself, I am detached. I have always been detached (in part). Always.

Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying.

Feeling of discontinuity as a person. My various selves—how do they all come together? And anxiety at moments of transition from one "role" to another. Will I make it fifteen minutes from now? Be able to step into, inhabit the person I'm supposed to be? This is felt as an infinitely hazardous leap, no matter how often it's successfully executed.

When I look at my picture I read stubbornness, balked vanity, panic, vulnerability.)

Being self-conscious. Treating one's self as an other. Supervising oneself.

I know I'm not myself with people, […] But am I myself when alone? That seems unlikely, too.

an expression of human consciousness, consciousness seeking to know itself.

In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

You're becoming more and more deeply in debt to yourself, and you are already bankrupt. You look at yourself too much. That's the beginning of all absurdity. Look about you. The world is an interesting place.

If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely.

Be still. Be silent. Find the center of yourself.

It was a wonder, after so many years of trying to press herself into society's mold, to suddenly suspect that the problem was with the mold, not with her.

I'm still figuring out who I am when I'm single." "Fair

appreciate your finer qualities

The weapon of memory, turned on the self, is an apocalyptic sword.

Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.

Then when our sniper steps to a window In the brain, starts shooting, and we fall surprised, Of what we know not do we seek forgiveness From ourselves, for ourselves?

You think he belonged to the type who can't live with themselves any more." "What a good description! Yes. The kind who want something badly, and then discover that the price they have paid for it is too high.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

Take the proper precautions before following your dreams, because in reality, we must awknowledge ourselves before its game time.

I try to act normal. Unfortunately I can do multiple different impressions of normal, and I can't figure out the appropriate one for the moment. I'm dangerously close to simply having to "be myself".