Quotes About Self-awareness

Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—good, but not best.

We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character. It is astounding how ignorant we are about ourselves! We don't even recognize the envy, laziness, or pride within us when we see it. But Jesus will reveal to us everything we have held within ourselves before His grace began to work. How many of us have learned to look inwardly with courage?

Jesus' instructions with regard to judging others is very simply put; He says, "Don't." The average Christian is the most piercingly critical individual known. Criticism is one of the ordinary activities of people, but in the spiritual realm nothing is accomplished by it. The effect of criticism is the dividing up of the strengths of the one being criticized.

You must constantly beware of anything that causes you to think of yourself as a superior person.

My vision of God is dependent upon the condition of my character.

External detachment is often an actual indication of a secret, growing, inner attachment to the things we stay away from externally.

Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and

It is not likely that sin will interfere with our intercessory relationship with God, but sympathy will. It is sympathy with ourselves or with others that makes us say, "I will not allow that thing to happen." And instantly we are out of that vital connection with God.

At first, Jesus Christ through His Spirit has to restrain you from doing a great many things that may be perfectly right for everyone else but not right for you. Yet, see that you don't use your restrictions to criticize someone else.

Holding or containing has cognitive and affective components and includes a basic attitude of concern for oneself and the patient and a psychological openness to the unknown in others as well as in oneself.

Ljudi od vrijednosti nikada nisu nadmeni. ?ovjek uvijek ima onoliko arogancije, koliko mu nedostaje samosvijesti. Nadmenost je samo sredstvo da se vješta?kim ponižavanjem bližnjega, na silu uzdigne samosvijest.

No one can understand himself, for to do that he would have to get outside himself; the subject of the knowing and willing activity would have to become its own object.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. Anne Morrow Lindberg

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ozzy, why do you drink so much? What's the point?' The right answer to that question was: because I'm an alcoholic; because I have an addictive personality; because whatever I do, I do it addictively. But I didn't know any of that back then.

I'm not proud of everything I've done, I'm not proud of all the drugs and booze, or biting the heads off a few animals. But I was young. I didn't know what the fuck I was thinking. Still it could be worse. I could be Sting.

Mármost ha az a helyzet, hogy mindenki tök, csak mi állunk a vártán ragyogón, okosan, mint a nap, akkor azért érdemes gyanút fogni.

Henry glanced hastily at the mirror. Yes, he did look rather old. He must have overdone some of the lines on his forehead. He looked something between a youngish centenarian and a nonagenarian who had seen a good deal of trouble.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

rudeness begets conflict with others but also conflict within ourselves, and the latter can prove as hurtful as the former (p. 43).

In the midst of a culture that glorifies indulgent, self-expression, we may find…that when we find the strength to engage in considerate listening we are in fact expressing ourselves. At our best (p. 53).

Re: Positive reactions to non-positive events] Our feelings are the products of our thoughts. A positive thought produces a feeling of contentment or happiness, a negative one a feeling of sadness or despondency. If we have control over how we feel about it as well. This means, in turn, that we can be the makers of our own happiness ( p.16).

The human being...is a book reading itself.

it is the eyes of others and not our own eyes which ruin us. If all the world were blind except myself I should not care for fine clothes or furniture.