Quotes about Self-awareness

The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are.

Begin to listen to what you say. Don't say anything that you don't want to become true for you.

If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison.

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly—to fully know and be fully known by another—we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in our most intimate relationships and in our selves.