Quotes about Self-awareness

We foolishly believe that our own limitations are the proper measure of limitations.

The past is like grace. It's not enough to know about it. We all know what happened back there. Grace allows you to see yourself in light of the past, not in the shadow of it. You see the truth about yourself, your need.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

I don't want to monitor my audience too closely, as that can really drive you crazy.

You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.

Maybe I am different now, Twyla. But you're not. You're the same little state kid who kicked a poor old black lady when she was down on the ground. You kicked a black lady and you have the nerve to call me a bigot.

Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. She would only see what there was to see: the eyes of other people.

You don't have any weaknesses?' 'I haven't found any.

Only one mirror has not been covered with chalky paint and that one the man ignores. He does not want to see himself stalking females or their liquid.