Quotes About Self-awareness

El primer paso para llegar a vencer la vergüenza consiste en aceptar lo que no podemos cambiar.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.

That place that I had been most sure that I was right was the place that I was most wrong.

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.

When you believe marriage is your answer, you'll often give something that eventually hurts you both.

The idiot actually leaned in. "I said, do you know who the fuck I am?" Henry peered at him and actually looked concerned. "Do you not know who you are?

Some of us are not meant to cowboy-up

I thought about the damage we all did in life simply by being ourselves and getting up in the morning.

I am not no swine," Archie said. He spread peanut butter on his bread, dotted it with cream cheese and jam, added a piece of ham, and finally topped it with a wedge of banana. "Because a swine is two or more pigs, and I'm only one pig." He added an olive to his masterpiece by way of garnish, and bit off a good quarter of it.

I need to narrow things down, start pruning back. Until then, I'm a whirring zoetrope of half-thoughts and worries.

I think most of the time when I'm yelling at my husband, I'm just yelling at myself.

You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.

As Albert Einstein said of himself in his later years, "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

When you look into the mirror of the Word, you will see your true identity. It reveals your spiritual reality and shows you who you are at the core—within your spirit—so that you can make any necessary adjustments.

One does not suffer nearly so much from one's inadequacies as from one's unused abilities.

They made the same mistakes over and over again because they weren't conscious of what they were doing.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

Brand is how others see you, culture is how you see yourself.

Life is the literary result of my passionate love affair between self and the universe...

There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out - surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people.

If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.