Quotes about Self-awareness

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound pitfalls and perils. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation, and despair.

How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

I think that even in this place we ought to live as if we had no wishes and no future, and just be our true selves.

We can of course shake off the burden which is laid upon us, but only find that we have a still heavier burden to carry — a yoke of our own choosing, the yoke of our self.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

If you try to follow everyone else and be like everyone else, before you know it you're gone. You're not going to find yourself again; you'll just be a version of what you might have hoped to have been.

How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life.

Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't.

Nothing could be more misdirected than a self-directed life.