Quotes About Self-awareness

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you." —Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher

Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble, When you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, Cause I get better looking each day. To know me is to love me. I must be a hell of a man. Oh Lord it's hard to be humble, But I'm doing the best that I can.

Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you.

Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you. Wortzman

because if she were no longer truly human, how could she judge his humanity?

PART 8 "Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you." —Friedrich Nietzsche,

If I wasn't my own harshest critic, I might start feeling important about now." Nick smiled. "Then I'm glad I didn't tell you we plan to give you tech that changes water into wine," he said with a twinkle in his eye.

He followed an ironclad rule. He NEVER WATCHED HIMSELF.

S'asseoir quelque part en compagnie de soi-même, soudain retranché de la confusion du monde, est aussi facile qu'essentiel.

We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

A country that believes it has never done any wrong is a country that could do wrong at any time. But a country that believes it has only done wrong, or done such a terrible, unalleviated amount of wrong in the past, is likely to become a country that is inclined to doubt its ability to ever do any good in the future.

for that reason I have not necessarily faced much discrimination.'19 So he had taken a couple of steps further into the hierarchy by becoming a man, had taken a couple of steps back by being a person of colour, but a step forward by being a light-skinned person of colour. And then he had hit the negative of being attractive. How can anyone work out where they are meant to be in the oppressor/oppressed stakes when they have so many competing privileges in their biography?

Learning that you can't control the other person's reaction, and that it can be destructive to try, can be incredibly liberating. It not only gives the other person the space to react however they need to, but also takes a huge amount of pressure off you. You will learn things about yourself based on their reaction, but if you are prepared to learn, you'll feel free from the desperate need for their reaction to go one certain way.

Depending on how we handle them, feelings can lead to great trouble. But the feelings themselves just are. In that sense, feelings are like arms or legs. If you hit or kick someone, then your arms or legs are causing trouble. But there's nothing inherently wrong with arms or legs. The same with feelings.

One of the most important things we can learn from Scripture is how to see ourselves accurately in the story in which we find ourselves. What story is God telling, and how does it concern us?

If you have told twenty-eight people this week that "he missed his nap today" as an excuse for his disobedience, then perhaps you ought to re-evaluate. We all know there are times when this is not an excuse but a reasonable explanation. But if you find yourself resorting to excuses all the time, then you are just trying to get people to overlook your lack of wisdom and discipline.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

Stop shoulding on yourself

Words from another person cannot hurt you unless you give them power by taking them into your being, accepting them, and making them yours.

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.

It is a mark of maturity to deal with the problem rather than suppress it

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