Quotes about Self-awareness
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
— Mark Twain
You have control over three things — what you think what you say, and how you behave. To make a change in your life, you must recognize that these gifts are the most powerful tools you possess in shaping the form of your life.
— Sonya Friedman
The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
— St. Augustine
For, as I know that I am, so I know this also, that I know.
— St. Augustine
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