Quotes About Self-awareness

I can't have feelings all the time. Being alone is the only possible condition for me, since I don't want to make a woman unhappy, and women have a tendency to become unhappy. Being alone isn't always fun, you can't always be in form.

We know Satan will attack weak spots first. Forty days of fasting left Jesus famished, so Satan began with the topic of bread. Jesus' stomach was empty, so to the stomach Satan turned. Where are you empty? Are you hungry for attention, craving success, longing for intimacy? Be aware of your weaknesses. Bring them to God before Satan brings them to you. Satan will tell you to turn stones into bread (Matt 4:3). In other words, meet your own needs, take matters into your own hands.

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three-piece suit." He counsels the arrogant that facing Christ is like entering the Church of the Nativity: "The door is so low, you can't go in

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action.

The day was a great eye, and it was not paying much attention to me now.

Nothing is changed, except there was a moment when the wolf, the mongering wolf who stands outside the self lay lightly down, and slept.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal 'picture' which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of 'will,' as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.

If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.

We have to break the mirror to be ourselves...

How does one grow up?" I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, "By thinking.

What we have not has made us what we are. Those surface consolations have to go.

Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world.

The fierce tension in me, when it is properly channeled, creates the good tension for work. But when it becomes unbalanced I am destructive. How to isolate that good tension is my problem these days. Or, put in another way, how to turn the heat down fast enough so the soup won't boil over!

Today I feel centered and time is a friend instead of the old enemy.

These angers are crippling, like a fit when they happen, and then, when they are over, haunting me with remorse. Those who know me well and love me have come to accept them as part of me; yet I know they are unacceptable.

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself.

I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents

Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful.

I'm happy...I laugh as much as I can and cry when I have to, without apology. I think that's happy.