Quotes about Self-awareness

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I'm eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

I can be a prickly personality at times, but none of it's ever malicious. I don't think anyone who really knows me on a deep level thinks I'm a bad guy. I like to think I'm a good guy.

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

Henri de Lubac, one of the most outstanding Roman Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, put it with a clarity and brevity very hard to improve upon: 'It is not sincerity, it is truth which frees us… To seek sincerity above all things is perhaps, at bottom, not to want to be transformed.