Quotes About Self-awareness

First thing is when your on Death Row long enough you don't ask WHO AM I because you have learnt nobody would be there anyway.

The secret is to scale one's ambitions precisely to fit one's talent, Mr Lesnovich told Enid. His manner as always was grave, vaguely censorious. That is the key to happiness.

the mirror above the bureau—a flushed blurred face. I had learned to look quickly away from that face for so often I hated what I saw.

My mind rattled on fast as a machine sometimes, ran its own way without my participation. So I'd know the answer to the algebra problem but not the steps to that answer. Or what a poem like Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken meant but not ho to explain it.

Yet, as a sympathetic biographer, shall I suggest, this outspoken young woman is not so innocent as she imagines herself?

Our past may explain why we're suffering, but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

The pathway to freedom begins when we face the problem without making excuses for it.

Be Yourself "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." —RALPH WALDO EMERSON But let every person carefully scrutinize and examine and test his own conduct and his own work. He can then have the personal satisfaction and joy of doing something commendable [in itself alone] without [resorting to] boastful comparison with his neighbor. —Galatians 6:4 For

Pay attention to the condition of your mind and keep it free, peaceful, and full of faith.

Proverbs 23:7 says that as a person thinks in his heart, so is he.

At one time I was shame-based, but I did not know I was ashamed of myself. I was seeing the results of shame in my life, but was unsuccessfully trying to deal with the fruit of it rather than the root.

I do not even put myself on trial and judge myself. 1 CORINTHIANS 4:3

your life will not get straightened out until your mind does.

Proverbs 23:7 and allow it to have an impact on your life: for as you think in your heart, so are you. I frequently say, "Where the mind goes, the man follows." Chapter

We fight many battles, but probably the greatest battle we fight is the one with ourselves.

Proverbs 23:7: "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.

you're thinking about." As I began to do so, it was not long before I began to see why I was having so much trouble in my life. My mind was a mess! I was thinking all the wrong things.

We must take responsibility for our responses to daily events, especially the little offenses that tempt us to be angry.

Do not judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves. For just as you judge and criticize and condemn others, you will be judged and criticized and condemned, and in accordance with the measure you [use to] deal out to others, it will be dealt out again to you. Matthew 7:1,2

A lot of Christians are blaming the devil for their own self-inflicted wounds.

Too many commitments will keep us from developing our potential. Letting other people control us will keep us from developing our potential. Not knowing how to say no will keep us from developing our potential. Getting overly involved in someone else's goals and vision or becoming entangled in someone else's problems instead of keeping our eyes on our own goals will keep us from fulfilling our potential.

So many people ruin relationships and they ruin their ministry and show that they are not yet qualified for the leadership they want to be in when they dofoolish things. One of the most foolish things you can do is think you are anointed to tell everybody else what they are supposed to do. In

we would get still long enough to let that wisdom rise and minister to our minds, we wouldn't do so many foolish things. Too many times, we react through our emotions and we don't pay any attention to the wisdom in our hearts.

Estas pláticas que yo tengo con mi conciencia son a veces muy largas, duran días enteros; por eso no resulta que me ponga a contártelas en esta pobre carta. De verdad, cuídate mucho, come y duerme bien y sueña con los angelitos y no en esta cosa maligna que soy yo. Pero no me olvides.