self-awareness Quotes

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.