Quotes about Self-awareness

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

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

That dreadful consciousness of a narrow and limiting I-hood which dogs our search for freedom and full life, is done away. For a moment, at least, the independent spiritual life is achieved. The contemplative is merged in it "like a bird in the air, like a fish in the sea": loses to find and dies to live.

When are we closest to God? When we see ourselves as we really are.

Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.

If we don't know who we are, we'll never know how we ought to live.

We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrading and belittling those around us. Yet this produces only a false sense of self-esteem.

Pride flees when we compare ourselves to God instead of [to] other people.

Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles—and an ironbound conscience when it comes to the foibles of others.

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

I do not understand what I do... For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. —Romans 7:15, 19