self-awareness Quotes

It is no judgement of a thing outside yourself to say it makes you ill. The wise reader knows that every pronouncement is, to some degree, an act of self-exposure; the book you find too challenging might only show how ill-equipped you are to face its challenge.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.