Quotes About Self-awareness

The things you do and say always tell you more about yourself than whoever you're speaking or responding to

Today you will spend solitary moments of conversation with yourself, either listing your complaints or counting your blessings.

Seeing yourself as hopeless and helpless if left to yourself initiates and ignites your pursuit of God's grace.

Not only does sin blind, but as sinners, we participate in our own blindness. We all swindle ourselves into thinking that we are better than we are, that what we're doing is okay when, in fact, it's not okay in the eyes of God. The spiritual reality is that we're like naked homeless people, but we see ourselves as affluent and well-dressed.

Wasn't this rugged business of taking your life apart, looking at all of it and admitting and remembering and reminding yourself of all the bad - wasn't the big result of it your getting to be honest? "Exactly that," said Ferguson.

Ik of hij, vanop een afstand ben ik hij, teruglopend word ik ik.

Self-improvement is important, but it needs to be conducive to your happiness. If an ambition will not make you or those you care about any happier, then there really is no point in striving to be someone else. You should carefully consider your reasons for the ideal self you construct and then select goals and ambitions that are sensible and conducive to your happiness.

trying to force yourself to be different never really works.

You can trust your own experiences more than your desires.

You can also trust your own experiences more than your projections.

The person I am with a seventy-year-old body (and all its accumulated experience) will not only look but will truly be different from the person I was with an eighteen-year-old body. Same person but – thank God – so different!

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

the compassionate mind is the mind that transforms.

it is not our fault that we are the way we are with all our drives, passions and aversions.

No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties.

Indeed there may be more: a chorus of me, the observed and the observers.

Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others.

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life.

It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.

Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored.

I'm not conceited. I'm just honest about being so much better than other people.

The key of liberation is to acknowledge that your unhealthy response to other peoples' behavior is a habit – and most importantly – that it's a habit you can break.

Relationships don't only fail because the person you're with turns out to be the wrong person; they also fail when you yourself aren't yet the person you need to be.

Be true to yourself" - Ven Zallow