self-awareness Quotes

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

I understand that all the songs I write are quite melodramatic and are quite extreme from my perspective, but that's how life feels to everyone at some point.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.