Quotes about Self-awareness

We may assume it is God we care for, but it may be our own ego we are concerned with. To examine our religious existence is, therefore, a task to be performed constantly.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

What is so frightening is the extent to which we may idealize others when we have such trouble tolerating ourselves

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

I will never be able to do or be everything you want, nor vice versa, but I'd like to think we can be the sort of people who will dare to tell each other who we really are. The alternative is silence and lies, which are the real enemies of love.

Rather than struggling to become bigger fish, we might concentrate our energies on finding smaller ponds or smaller species to swim with, so our own size will trouble us less.

We are idiots now, we have been idiots in the past and we will be idiots again in the future - and that is OK.

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ, is that he is more clearly aware than other men of the rebelliousness and perennial pride of the flesh, he is conscious of his sloth and self-indulgence and knows that his arrogance must be eradicated. Hence there is a need for daily self-discipline.