Quotes About Self-awareness

Every jackass thinks he's got horse sense.

A man who can't take a word of criticism hears it the most.

You don't learn from experience; you learn from reflecting on experience.

It's always the same. When you come out of it and take a look around, the sight of wounds that you have left on the people who care for you makes you wince more than those you have inflicted on yourself. Though I am devoid of regret or remorse for almost anything I have done, if there is a corner for these feelings then it lies with that awareness. It should be enough to stop you from ever going back down there, but it seldom is. Anthony Loyd, My War Gone By, I Miss It So.

If God seems far away, who moved?

It's difficult to dispel arrogance if you retain ignorance.

And it made me nervous, because I'm the kind of person who should be kept away from romance, the way certain people should be kept away from guns or sharp knives.

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.

Many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of. Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface.

But it also taught me that it is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment, the fear we internalize.

We don't know who we can be until we know what we can do.

No sabremos lo que podemos llegar a ser hasta que no sepamos lo que somos capaces de hacer.

To find your Element you have to get to know yourself better. You have to spend time with yourself, apart from other people's opinions of you.

Weil argues that emotional well-being is just as important as physical well-being and that we need to create the conditions that allow us to be happy through circumstances within our control. "Happiness arises spontaneously from sources within us," he says. "Seeking it outside ourselves is counterproductive.

Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.

repentance is sometimes described as "coming to our senses" (see Luke 15:17)- 2 Tim. 2:25-26). It involves a waking up to the fact that we have been deceiving ourselves and that our ideas, attitudes, values, or goals have been wrong.

Maybe I should have screwed up.

Socrates was quoted as saying "The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

You should constantly be confessing who you are. On no, not who you are physically—the son or daughter of John Doe who lives on such-and-such street. No! But who you are according to the Word of God. That's the confession we're to hold fast to.

My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who have pretended to be villains so well that they believe it themselves. This is how I like to view reality.

Is there anything you can't do, Mr. Cruse?" she said. "I can't sing," I said.