Jim Woodring Quotes

Know thyself.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

What you are comes to you.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I see myself as the same person as I was, as I am now.

What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that's the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof - the same guy.

Who you are and what you think of yourself is constantly changing.

I don't make much of comparisons in general, it's not how I think people construct themselves and I don't think it's a healthy way of dealing with your own reality.

In the beginning of 'Jersey Shore,' for sure, that was the real Mike. That's the Mike that I know, that's the Mike I love. And that's the Mike I strive to be every day.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.

You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.

But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.