Quotes on “self-awareness”

Yes! I'm me! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I think! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

IF YOU DON'T GO AFTER WHAT YOU WANT; YOU COULD SPEND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE SETTLING FOR WHAT YOU CAN GET

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.