#elf

I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses. ↗

— Janet Frame

#self-knowledge #self-knowledge

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation? ↗

— Pascal Mercier

#honesty #illusions #perception #personality #self-awareness

You are not easily forgotten. ↗

— Greg Behrendt

#self-worth #self-worth

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

— Anthony de Mello

#self-awareness #wisdom #self-awareness

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#self-awareness

I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused. ↗

— Keith Richards

#self-awareness

Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not ↗

— Amit Abraham

#self #self-awareness #self-awareness

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#annoyance #irritation #responsibility #self-awareness #self-awareness

If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#self-awareness

It’s probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are. (413) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#perception #self-awareness #self-esteem #self-awareness