138 Self-Awareness Quotes

Self-awareness is a cornerstone of personal growth, shedding light on our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. It's a reflective practice that empowers us to understand our innermost selves, navigate our relationships wisely, and strive for a more authentic life. Whether you're beginning your journey toward greater self-understanding or are well-practiced in introspection, these carefully selected self-awareness quotes offer profound insights and inspiration. Delve into this collection to uncover powerful words that can guide you toward enlightenment and deeper self-discovery.

1. “A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.” - David Sedaris

2. “Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.” - G.I. Gurdjieff

3. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” - Dolly Parton

4. “I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.” - Hermann Hesse

5. “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” - C.G. Jung

6. “Indecision may or may not be my problem.” - Jimmy Buffett

7. “Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.” - Janis Joplin

8. “We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

9. “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” - Charlotte Brontë

10. “It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.” - Bill Bryson

11. “Through others we become ourselves.” - Lev S. Vygotsky

12. “I am who I am; no more, no less.” - Terry Goodkind

13. “I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.” - Philip K. Dick

14. “How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.” - Joseph Campbell

15. “Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?” - Ayn Rand

16. “Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not” - Dr. Amit Abraham

17. “I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.” - W.H. Auden

18. “I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.” - Douglas Adams

19. “The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.” - George Sheehan

20. “There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.” - J. Michael Straczynski

21. “The basis of all reasoning is the mind's awareness of itself. What we think, the external objects we perceive, are all like actors that come on and off stage. But our consciousness, the stage itself, is always present to us.” - Trey Parker

22. “Look, there is nothing you can say about this show that I don't already know” - Craig Ferguson

23. “Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.” - Marcel Proust

24. “She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world.” - Sharon Maas

25. “If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.” - Paulo Coelho

26. “Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I'd sooner die than owe anyone money for helping me. Apparently Jimmy knew more about me at that point than I knew about myself.” - Craig Ferguson

27. “I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.” - Steve Toltz

28. “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

29. “If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed.” - Lou Ferrigno

30. “History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...” - A. S. Byatt

31. “The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.” - theodor w. adorno

32. “Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you...” - Banana Yoshimoto

33. “But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.” - Jay Asher

34. “I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.” - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

35. “you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.” - Ernest Hemingway

36. “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” - Michel de Montaigne

37. “Even if you think you're doing well and have it all figured out, there is a voice you will always inevitably hear at some point which nags at you and says "but wait..." Don't ever dismiss it, listen to what it has to say. Life will never be close enough to perfect, and listening to that voice means stepping outside of yourself and considering your own wrongdoings and flaws.” - Ashly Lorenzana

38. “It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,” - Amit Ray

39. “All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.” - Michel de Montaigne

40. “Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.” - Amit Ray

41. “There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it.” - C. JoyBell C.

42. “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” - C. JoyBell C.

43. “I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.” - C. JoyBell C.

44. “If we cant laugh at ourselves, do we have the right to laugh at others?” - C.H. Hamel

45. “Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes dumb. His toe scuffs a soft storm of sand, he kneels and his arms spread in pantomimic celebration, the immigrant, as in every moment of his life, arriving eternally on the shore of his Self.” - E.L. Doctorow

46. “Without awareness, we are not truly alive.” - James F. T. Bugental

47. “You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.” - Kazuo Ishiguro

48. “The need to prove who you are will vanish once you know who you are.” - Danielle Pierre

49. “At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.” - Albert Camus

50. “I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.” - Jim McDonald

51. “I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.” - Suzanne Collins

52. “A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.” - Meister Eckhart

53. “I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.” - Socrates

54. “It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.” - Abraham Harold Maslow

55. “Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.” - C.S. Lewis

56. “The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. The difference between my sins and your sins is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions. I am a siren, a mermaid; I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves and I know that I can eat flesh and bones at the bottom of the sea. You are a white witch, a wizard; your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig.” - C. JoyBell C.

57. “I'd spend about an hour, my room darkening around me, wondering what the hell happened to make me so unsure of who I even was. Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world to answer, right? Only for me it hadn't been easy for a very long time.” - Jennifer Brown

58. “The world each person creates for himself is a distinctive world, not the same world others occupy.” - Dean Barnlund

59. “Self-awareness of one’s faults, far from being the first step to growth, is very often the second foot in the mud.” - Bauvard

60. “Sometimes it takes more than shouting it to show your pride. It takes more than a sign, a fabulous outfit, or a month of parades. Pride has to resonate from within; shine out to everyone around you. It has mean something to you and only you first before you announce it to the world.” - Solange nicole

61. “Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.” - Ashly Lorenzana

62. “The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.” - Criss Jami

63. “Being spontaneous is being able to respond with confidence; calmly trusting that, whatever the outcome, you will have a positive if challenging experience that will lead to greater self-awareness and success.” - Sylvia Clare

64. “If you were determined to get enjoyment out of every moment, you would learn to do whatever it took. What it takes is not listening to negative thoughts, yours or anyone else's. Disregarding negative thoughts isn't hiding our head in the sand, but simply not allowing the negative to clutter and influence over our experience of the present moment. The moment is never improved or helped by negativity, although we are programmed to think our negative thoughts, worries, and fears serve a useful function. When you really examine this idea, however, you see that negativity doesn't serve. Focusing on negativity and fears doesn't make anyone a better person, nor does doing that help us function better in the world. In fact, the truth is quite the opposite.” - Gina Lake

65. “A lot of things are inherent in life -change, birth, death, aging, illness, accidents, calamities, and losses of all kinds- but these events don't have to be the cause of ongoing suffering. Yes, these events cause grief and sadness, but grief and sadness pass, like everything else, and are replaced with other experiences. The ego, however, clings to negative thoughts and feelings and, as a result, magnifies, intensifies, and sustains those emotions while the ego overlooks the subtle feelings of joy, gratitude, excitement, adventure, love, and peace that come from Essence. If we dwelt on these positive states as much as we generally dwell on our negative thoughts and painful emotions, our lives would be transformed.” - Gina Lake

66. “The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and it's your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who's not full of hate, who's able to smile and be carefree. So that's who I have to be.” - C. JoyBell C.

67. “Once," Fran says, settling against the worktable, folding her arms, "I knew this kid who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no mattter what anyone else might want for us. Wasn't that you?” - Madeleine George

68. “But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like?Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.” - Philip Pullman

69. “To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it.” - C. JoyBell C.

70. “Eu que me aguente comigo e com os comigos de mim.” - Fernando Pessoa

71. “The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.” - Eckhart Tolle

72. “Life is a valuable and unique opportunityto discover who you are.But it seems as soon as you nearanswering that age-old question,something unexpected always happensto alter your course.And who it is you thought you weresuddenly changes.Then comes the frustrating realizationthat no matter how long life endures,no matter how many experiencesare muddled through in this existence,you may never really be ableto answer the question....Who am I? Because the answer, like the seasons,constantly, subtly, inevitably changes.And who it is you are today,is not the same person you will be tomorrow.” - Richelle Goodrich

73. “A life without regret can be attained by full awareness of one's actions in their present moment.” - Michelle D. Rosado

74. “No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you."She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling."And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me?” - Charlotte Brontë

75. “Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.” - Jess C. Scott

76. “She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.” - Iain Pears

77. “I don't want someone to believe my lies, I need someone to accept my truths.” - Kellie Elmore

78. “self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.” - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

79. “I should learn from today and make tomorrow better.” - Toni Sorenson

80. “I have to admit it humbly, mon cher compatriote, I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I is the refrain of my whole life, which could be heard in everything I said. I could never talk without boasting, especially if I did so with that shattering discretion that was my specialty. It is quite true that I always lived free and powerful. I simply felt released in the regard to all the for the excellent reason that I recognized no equals. I always considered myself more intelligent than everyone else, as I’ve told you, but also more sensitive and more skillful, a crack shot, an incomparable driver, a better lover. Even in the fields in which it was easy for me to verify my inferiority–like tennis, for instance, in which I was but a passable partner–it was hard for me not to think that, with a little time and practice, I would surpass the best players. I admitted only superiorities in me and this explained my good will and serenity. When I was concerned with others, I was so out of pure condescension, in utter freedom, and all the credit went to me: my self-esteem would go up a degree.” - Albert Camus

81. “The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by transcending ourselves. We must learn to move beyond self-centeredness to make room within ourselves for others. When you transcend yourself, the fact will be confirmed by the quality of your life. We will attain – even if only momentarily – a transparency and a radiance of being which results from living both within and beyond yourself. This is the promise and the excitement of self-understanding.” - Don Richard Riso

82. “It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.” - Jack Kerouac

83. “The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.” - Jim Morrison

84. “Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.” - John Taylor Gatto

85. “A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.” - Louis-Ferdinand Celine

86. “...friendship is something you do.” - Nuala O'Faolain

87. “Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought to strive for, or they can show us how not to be and what things we ought to stray from, then you may have the kind of parents that show you all the things about you that you want to get rid of and you realize those traits aren't yours at all but are merely your parents' marks that have rubbed off onto you.” - C. JoyBell C.

88. “If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs.” - C. JoyBell C.

89. “If you swim effortlessly in the deep oceans, ride the waves to and from the shore, if you can breathe under water and dine on the deep treasures of the seas; mark my words, those who dwell on the rocks carrying nets will try to reel you into their catch. The last thing they want is for you to thrive in your habitat because they stand in their atmosphere where they beg and gasp for some air.” - C. JoyBell C.

90. “Ogni uomo ha le sue bestie che se ne stanno in agguato al buio, e le sue maschere per nasconderle. E scatenarle fuori di sé nel mondo non è una via per liberarsene. Quindi sì, vivrò ancora con loro, per tutto il tempo che mi resta da vivere. Ma, se potrò impedirlo, non saranno più loro a guidarmi la mano.” - Luca Tarenzi

91. “Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!” - Søren Kierkegaard

92. “There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity.” - Mollie Marti

93. “It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

94. “You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was.” - Anthon St. Maarten

95. “Sometimes our Biggest Nightmare turns out to be our Biggest Gift. And it all comes down to our attitude. Life will throw us curve balls and disappointments, even heartbreak. But ultimately we can choose if we're going to be Bitter or Better for the experience.” - Kathryn Orford

96. “A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.” - Erol Ozan

97. “Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?” - Marcus Aurelius

98. “A real secret is something which only one person knows.” - Idries Shah

99. “Sometimes it takes falling apart to see exactly how or what loosened the mortar. Sometimes we find we are responsible for the how & the what. As unpleasant as it is when it happens, one cannot help but appreciate these times for what you learn serves as a beacon. Of course this is only half the battle. Which means you're already half way there.” - Colleen Truscott Fry

100. “The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?” - Vernor Vinge

101. “I have seen myself backward.” - Philip K. Dick

102. “Min aska kommer sprida värme.” - Leon Noips

103. “One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, / And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten / million years, / I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.” - Walt Whitman

104. “The eye of your mind—your intelligence; the eye of your heart—your conscience; and the eye of your soul—your instinct.” - Melissa McPhail

105. “When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.” - Mitch Albom

106. “I can't say I know at this moment what all these laws are. But on some level everybody knows that we are all getting exactly what we deserve.” - Thaddeus Golas

107. “He understood it then. The potential, the utter, unbelievable freedom to be whoever existed underneath his skin.” - Aleksandr Voinov

108. “I am.I'm here.I'm me.You are the mystery. ” - Richelle E. Goodrich

109. “Je sais qu'on ne peut jamais se connaître, mais seulement se raconter.” - Simone de Beauvoir

110. “In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.” - Melina Marchetta

111. “The power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside of crisis, too. I am, in every moment, capable of mustering the strength to survive again—or of tapping that strength in other good, productive, healthy ways.” - Michele Rosenthal

112. “Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech, which is a gauge of the heart's state.” - Hamza Yusuf

113. “Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.” - Walt Whitman

114. “As the leaf takes its time finding the ground so must I.” - Cory Basil

115. “He said sometimes when you're young you have to think about things, because you're forming your value-sets and you keep coming up with Data Insufficient and finding holes in your programs. So you keep trying to do a fix on your sets. And the more powerful your mind is and the more intense your concentration is, the worse damage you can do to yourself, which is why, Justin says, Alphas always have trouble and some of them go way off and out-there, and why almost all Alphas are eccentric. But he says the best thing you can do if you're too bright for your own good is what the Testers do, be aware where you got which idea, keep a tab on everything, know how your ideas link up with each other and with your deep-sets and value-sets, so when you're forty or fifty or a hundred forty and you find something that doesn't work, you can still find all the threads and pull them.But that's not real easy unless you know what your value-sets are, and most CITs don't. CITs have a trouble with not wanting to know that kind of thing. Because some of them are real eetee once you get to thinking about how they link. Especially about sex and ego-nets.Justin says inflexibility is a trap and most Alpha types are inward-turned because they process so fast they're gone and thinking before a Gamma gets a sentence out. Then they get in the habit of thinking they thought of everything, but they don't remember everything stems from input. You may have a new idea, but it stems from input somebody gave you, and that could be wrong or your senses could have been lying to you. He says it can be an equipment-quality problem or a program-quality problem, but once an Alpha takes a falsehood for true, it's a personal problem.” - C.J. Cherryh

116. “Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.” - Don DeLillo

117. “Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.” - Michael A. Singer

118. “Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn

119. “If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.” - Ashly Lorenzana

120. “We're freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I'm a twenty-five-year-old freak and she's a twenty-one-year-old freak, and both those bastards are responsible. I swear to you, I could murder them both without batting an eyelash. The great teachers. The great emancipators. My God. I can't even sit down to lunch with a man any more and hold up my end of a decent conversation. I either get so bored or so goddamn preachy that if the son of a bitch had any sense, he'd break his chair over my head” - J.D. Salinger

121. “The destination isn't in finding yourself. The destination is in the search.” - Thomas Warfield

122. “Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life.” - jay woodman

123. “The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don’t know you have.” - Amy Neftzger

124. “Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

125. “The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]” - Robert Hughes

126. “Tener opiniones es estar vendido a uno mismo. No tener opiniones es existir. Tener todas las opiniones es ser poeta.” - Fernando Pessoa

127. “Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.” - Jamaica Kincaid

128. “What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

129. “When you can truly understand how others experience your behavior, without defending or judging, you then have the ability to produce a breakthrough in your leadership and team. Everything starts with your self-awareness. You cannot take charge without taking accountability, and you cannot take accountability without understanding how you avoid it.” - Loretta Malandro

130. “Taking care of yourself is one of the hardest jobs -- don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. It's much easier to take care of others.” - Charity Shumway

131. “Your heart is who you are, all else follows. Guard your heart, Thomas. Guard your heart.” - Liam Perrin

132. “Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.” - Alain De Botton

133. “Separate yourself from the lies and illusions which are not you.” - Bryant McGill

134. “Within you, you will find everything you need to be complete.” - Bryant McGill

135. “One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.” - Rollo May

136. “...and the smoke that creeps off the tip of my cigarette and into the dim, scattered strands of light leaking off the moon, in through the clefts in the curtains, is much like my spirit trying to escape the burn of yesterday's presence.” - Kellie Elmore

137. “You're surrounded by people and voices and noises, but there you are, alone and trembling inside. And you want to be invisible. (thinking) Please, don't notice me.” - Kellie Elmore

138. “It...whatever 'it' is, has swallowed me and I lie here in the pit of its cold dark stomach being eaten alive by its bile and I...I don't even know if I want to be saved.” - Kellie Elmore