Quotes About Self-awareness

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

It was me—the weak-willed, easily seduced, insecure girl I'd become. I was the obstacle I'd be carrying around with me for the rest of my life.

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

And for the rest of her life, the girl, the woman, she never made a mark on anyone either that proved anything absolutely for certain, that she could ever see, about what she had done at any time, and this does not break her heart. "Cloud

He has to keep his emotions grazing in the back pasture." Senator Elliott

The truth about me would rise like smoke signals soon enough.

Never make choices simply because someone told you what is right. Know yourself, know your situation, know God for yourself, and decide what is right for your life.

One of my greatest strengths is to admit my weaknesses.

Now the spotlight comes on and I'm saying to myself, 'Earvin, you don't play the game above the rim. You play it cerebrally. You play it in an intelligent way and just be who you are.

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.

We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God's will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph; the course that you are taking at the outset is one that you have chosen for yourselves…

The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ, is that he is more clearly aware than other men of the rebelliousness and perennial pride of the flesh, he is conscious of his sloth and self-indulgence and knows that his arrogance must be eradicated. Hence there is a need for daily self-discipline.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

I think that even in this place we ought to live as if we had no wishes and no future, and just be our true selves.

The Christian community is not a spiritual sanatorium. Those who take refuge in community while fleeing from themselves are misusing it to indulge in empty talk and distraction, no matter how spiritual this idle talk and distraction may appear.

If you master your mind, it will remain naturally concentrated, peaceful and aware. You will even be able to wander around in a crowd without being distracted and carried away by desire or aversion.

And truly, when I think about it, no one owes me a proper and truthful account of their life. And I don't owe anyone veracity when t comes to mine.

Because if a woman learns to separate what she thinks from how she feels, she has a chance of making the right decision for herself.

I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws… this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?