Quotes About Self-awareness

That's all we may expect of man, this side. The grave: his good is—knowing he is bad.

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

It is only when we start understanding on an emotional level, on a gut level, that we were powerless to do anything any differently than we did that we can Truly start to Love ourselves.

we need to not confuse the intellectual with the emotional (forgiving someone intellectually does not make the energy of anger and pain disappear) - and to not kid ourselves that using the tools allows us to avoid the process.

Doing our emotional healing allows us to feel clear about what is in front of us instead of torturing ourselves by obsessively thinking, trying to figure out what's right and what's wrong.

Codependence allows us to survive physically but causes us to feel empty and dead inside. Codependence is a defense system that causes us to wound ourselves.

Until I started owning the grief and rage from my childhood, the sadness and hurt and fear that I had denied all of my life, I was incapable of being honest with myself, incapable of knowing who I Truly was.

I realized that I was judging myself against standards that weren't real, against expectations that were a fantasy, a fairy tale.

One of most important steps to empowerment is integrating Spiritual Truth into our experience of the process. In order to do that it is necessary to practice discernment in our relationship with the emotional and mental components of our being.

Oh wad some power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as ithers see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

God knows, I'm no the thing I should be,Nor am I even the thing I could be.

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!

ah the power that gift would give us, to see ourselves as others see us.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion!

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion!

Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves.

They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.

They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud.

T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.

If you are tired or distracted, do not code.