Quotes About Self-awareness

When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.

He didn't want to be what he wasn't, he didn't know how to be what he was.

It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him.

This is an essential element of the business of being a man: to flood everyone around you in a great radiant arc of bullshit

Then I reminded myself that I was always willing to listen to arguments in favor of avoiding an unpleasant chore, and I shook my head.

My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

The great truth was that we were not the center of things, or others' lives, but only so in our own mind's eye. We were all obscure nobodies at our essence.

If you go into darkness, the darkness goes into you.

Nobody in this world is who they say they are. Nobody. Not when they're in their own room with the door shut and locked. And nobody knows anybody, no matter what they think... The best you can hope for is to know yourself. And sometimes when you do, when you see your true self, you have to turn away.

There was still chicken on the bone but sometimes you just have to push the plate away.

Everybody has a jury, the voices they carry inside.

If we can't be honest with ourselves, how can we ever tell the truth to the people out there?

I put my hand down below the table to check my zipper. You have to stand before a jury only once with your fly open and it will never happen again

You see, the past is what you make of it. You can use it to hurt yourself or others or you can use it to make yourself strong.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you….

You see, the past is what you make of it. You can use it to hurt yourself or others or you can use it to make yourself strong. I'm strong, Harry. Now, tell me why you came to vist me today.

pride gets in the way of a lot of the right decisions

You're an asshole, you know that, Haller? I nodded and headed back to the door. When I need to be.

Ms. Chandler, we don't need to point. We all know who we are. We also do not need inflammatory accent being placed on any words. Words are beautiful and ugly, all on their own. Let them stand for themselves.

The point is that there are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many. You don't need to add to them.

What's your point, Legal?" "The point is that there are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many. You don't need to add to them.

You are not me; I am not you; God is not you; you, most certainly, not God.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you.