It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his person, which may not happen to be so beautiful as it ought to be. He must, therefore, guard particularly against that self-love, or too good opinion of his own person, and study by every means to acquire the knowledge of what is most beautiful, and of his own defects, that he may adopt the one and avoid the other.

The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one's thoughts to cease to be aware of life.