Self Awareness Quotes

"Mirrors are for misery, nothing more. They record decay." "Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when everyone has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always allow itself to be trifled with?" "To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all." "There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming." "To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity." "When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write a brave new ending" "Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness" "Mirror on the wall, here we are again" "Sometimes in our pursuit of happiness, we end up learning only that we were in pursuit of the wrong thing" "Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others" "Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up" "O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!" "Men should be what they seem." "We know what we are, but know not what we may be." "Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve" "The wise man makes his own heaven while the foolish one inherits his own hell" "My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication— it makes them sociable I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness— it is all that I have— and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well" "Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart." "Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own" "A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood, it becomes a living experience"