Peter De Vries Quotes

I'm pretty self-aware, and I am an embarrassingly flawed human being in a ton of ways.

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

I'm not very pious about anything, fortunately, but I'm skewering myself first. I'm skewering things that I care about and things that are important to me and then just my own foibles.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

I think you're always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, 'All right, at least I know that now!'

I want to be able to show people that I have flaws and they have flaws, too. And you know what that means? No one out there is perfect.

I know my own flaws only too well.

Flaws are really interesting.

I've learned that we all have an ugly side.

You can't just blame things on evil. Everyone's a human, so when people say that somebody's behaving 'inhuman,' it's not. It's very human - it's just not a very nice side of it.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

I suppose we all have a lil' inner or outer a-hole inside of us, just waiting for the right opportunity to rear their own beautiful buttholes.

I just feel like I understand Cameron Diaz better than I ever have before, and I don’t like it. I don’t like to see everything I see. It’s like a magnifying mirror only soulful, and I’m not looking at her, I’m looking at us, you know? And our pores are huge.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

If thou has not seen the devil, look at thine own self.

Critisism is just reflection of the person that speaking

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.

I'm you and you are me. I'm a man and you're a man. When people understand the more they know Self, the real Inner Self of themselves it's the same physical structure you've got. The same things you deal with I deal with. Everything derives from the mind. What's funny is the mind is the hardest question and I guess that's why I'm always writing about it.

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

Dad," said Will, his voice very faint. "Are you a good person?" "To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime, Will. I know everything worth knowing about myself-" "And, adding it all up...?" "The sum? As they come and go, and I mostly sit very still and tight, yes, I'm all right.

Ask yourself this question everyday: What is it about me that other people would change if they could?