Quotes about Self-awareness
What is that which gleams through me, and strikes my heart without hurting it; and I shudder and kindle? I shudder, inasmuch as I am unlike it; I kindle, inasmuch as I am like it.
— St. Augustine
Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.
— Pope Gregory The Great
When you believe you are excusing yourself, you are accusing yourself.
— St. Jerome
I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness, and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. 11.
— Teresa of Avila
He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
— Aristotle
From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.
— Henri Nouwen
Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.
— Albert Camus
It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
— Teresa of Avila
It's not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
— St. Augustine
The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
— Pema Chodron
When in doubt, tell yourself the truth.
— Seth Godin
Have the boldness to tell yourself the truth - every bit of it.
— Oprah Winfrey