Quotes About Self-awareness

If any experience in your past is defining you today—other than your salvation experience—then you have serious work to do.

Lord, I confess my anger today and ask You to please cleanse my heart of the deep resentment, bitterness, and injury I feel. They run so deep, Father—and the strength of those feelings alarms me at times. I know that this situation is not only about how I was wronged or the person who hurt me. It touched a profound place within me that needs healing

Do you speak to yourself in gentle tones - encouraging yourself to do better and live according to the highest and most noble standard? Or do you put yourself down and speak words of criticism and judgment over yourself?

None of us has become perfect (Phil. 3:12). None of us does everything right. None of us is so wise that we always speak the right word or so strong that we always do the right thing. Remembering this keeps us humble.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

It is always the secure who are humble.

The sins of others are filthy smelly dung; our own sins have the golden sparkle and aroma of a fine ale.

No one of good character leaves behind a wasted life — whether they die in obscurity or renown.... Your character is what you are to yourself, not what you pretend to be to yourself or others. Although human beings often attempt self-delusion, we cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves. It will make itself known to us by means of our conscience despite our most strenuous effort to suppress it.

If you don't get enough time-outs as a child, you get them as a grownup.

A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

I really enjoy life I'm just not good at it.

I have my own little world, but it's okay — they know me here.

Meditation does not answer the questions of the mind, but it dissolves the very mind which creates many questions and confusion in our life.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behaviour.

No man that lives can satisfy everybody. The recipe for perfect peace is, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Proverbs bear age and he who should do well may view himself in them as in a looking-glass.

It's all about how he saves her — not from the dragon but from herself.

Let every man sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Most of our scars are internal.

There is no Scorpion like a guilty mind— No sting so terrible as he must bear Whose conscience still reproves.

Some people never have reflections unless they stand before a mirror.

We must be our own, before we can be another's.

Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.