Quotes about Self-awareness

His condition is also his own, and not another man's. His suffering and his happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

All things are mirrors in which you see yourself reflected, and the gloom which you perceive in your work is but a reflection of that mental state which you bring to it. Bring a right, an unselfish, state of heart to the

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

One who cannot swim must not blame the water.

A wise man is closer to God than a fool will ever be to himself.

Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.