Quotes About Self-awareness

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.

Forgiveness sets the prisoner free. And realizing that prisoner was you. That's what forgiveness does. It sets you free.

When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.

To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.

The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.

God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.

Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.

NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.

Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim.

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

I haven't sought self-forgiveness because I feel I was preyed upon and not responsible for the many bad things that happened to me.

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

How many things there are which I do not want.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers for each rage leaves him less than he had been before-it takes something from him.

The externals are simply so many props everything we need is within us.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive himself even a little is the moment in which he becomes to some degree lovable.

Be content with what thou hast received and smooth thy frowning forehead.

It is right to be contented with what we have never with what we are.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.