David Levithan Quotes

What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.

I think was overly empathetic for a while in my life.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

I'm not good at watching myself.

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

It's important to air your concerns and fears with someone you trust. When you're honest about how you can change and grow, and where your weaknesses are, then you open the door for improvement and change.

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

I hit 'record' whenever I'm going through a really hard time. I don't listen to it for a couple of days, so I have some perspective. If it's too personal to share, and I feel like would alienate the listeners, then I usually don't share that stuff.

I believe we all grow because we share our experiences and our problems. We all have our intimate times. Why not share them?

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

Finding real friends - that's something that was an obstacle for me. And learning how to deal with my problems and talking about them.

Many people come to self-help material because they feel like something is wrong with them or the way they are. The problem is that anything that tells you how to improve your life is also implying that there is something inherently wrong with you the way you are.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

Sometimes I feel drawn to writing about my shortcomings because I'm chock full of them.

People still say I am over-confident, but I am a big critic of myself.

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

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

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