Quotes about Self-awareness

They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.

If you're sane enough to know that you're crazy then you're not as crazy as if you thought you were sane.

One thing about me, when I'm wrong I'll admit it. Well. That's a good trait to have.

If you dont like to be laughed at dont fall on your ass, said Rawlins.

The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

What we mean is that people may go on, keep on, and rush on, without souls. They have their ego and their will, that is enough to keep them going.

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.

There's magic, positive magic, in such phrases as: I may be wrong. I frequently am. Let's examine the facts.

British writer G. K. Chesterton's reply to an invitation by the Times to write an essay on the subject "What's Wrong with the World?" Chesterton's response: Dear Sirs, I am. Sincerely, G. K. Chesterton

I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves—before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.

people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.