Quotes about Self-awareness

The problem in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself not with the body, which is falling away, but with the consciousness of which it is a vehicle. This is something I learned from myths.

Yes. What you have here is what might be translated into raw individualism, you see, if you didn't realize that the center was also right there facing you in the other person. This is the mythological way of being an individual. You are the central mountain, and the central mountain is everywhere.

Pooh began to feel a little more comfortable, because when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

There's this thing that I like to call the RC Sproul principle of hermenutics. When you're reading the bible and you come across someone doing something really stupid, don't say to yourself "I'm glad I'm not him". Ask yourself "How am I that stupid?

If I say, "You are wrong for judging people" then by my own standard I am wrong for judging you.

John Newton looked across the kitchen table and said to William Cowper, "I'm not what I ought to be. I'm not what I want to be. I'm not what I hope to be. But thank God I'm not what I used to be.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.