Quotes About Self-awareness

The second truth in this part of the story is that we are all, by nature, hypocrites, and this is why it is so hard for us to follow the Golden Rule faithfully.

The image that I came up with for myself, as I marveled at my weakness, was that I was a rider on the back of an elephant. I'm holding the reins in my hands, and by pulling one way or the other I can tell the elephant to turn, to stop, or to go. I can direct things, but only when the elephant doesn't have desires of his own. When the elephant really wants to do something, I'm no match for him.

Clinical psychologists sometimes say that two kinds of people seek therapy: those who need tightening, and those who need loosening.

But the rest of the time—which is almost all of the time—accountability pressures simply increase confirmatory thought. People are trying harder to look right than to be right.

I'm not posh! I'm just southern

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

opens it." "So what're you

We find, over time, the deepness of a thing. And if we fail to find it, then we invent it, to show ourselves we are not shallow.

Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror

She had a pretty name but she knew she wasn't pretty.

Maybe you should go make that call again. Ask very specifically how much of who's ass needs to be kissed here. I'm pretty sure it's my hairy butt that's gonna be getting all the love.

It doesn't exactly fill me with pride." "For what, being a white man?" "For being a carbon based life-form.

I'm self-aware enough to know that I have a somewhat fractured personality. Not exactly multiple personality disorder, but clearly there were different drivers at the wheel depending on my mood, and depending on my needs. Over

Everybody else needs mirrors to remind themselves who they are. You're no different.

When God wants to punish us, he gives us just ourselves to care for.

You're like a lot of others, thinking everything come from the white man. Long as you believe that, you'll be blind to your own lights. You got to break the lie.

people don't always understand their own true desires and feelings, and, even if they do, they might not give a straight answer.

sank. It dawned upon me that I was becoming someone I didn't like. I began to feel defined by my ingratitude.

It was as if, having met so many of my own goals, some perverse organ of my brain was busy creating new, spurious ones.

A leader should never try to be all things to all people. A leader should be content to be what he or she is. Leaders must have the strength to know what they cannot be if they are to have the courage to be themselves.

What all four stories tell us is that there comes a time for each of us when we must make an ultimate decision as to who we are. It is a moment of existential truth. Lot is a Hebrew, not a citizen of Sodom. Eliezer is Abraham's servant, not his heir. Joseph is Jacob's son, not an Egyptian of loose morals. Moses is a prophet, not a priest. To say yes to who we are, we have to have the courage to say no to who we are not. Pain

Without God, there is a danger that we will stay trapped within the prison of the self. As

It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.