Quotes about Self-awareness

God gave me emotions so I could experience life, not destroy it.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

Life happens not to me but for me.

Sarah blamed her husband for a situation she herself had arranged! It might seem ludicrous if it wasn't so much like what all of us do when we allow our wounds to blind us. That's the most striking characteristic of a blind spot — it can be easily seen by everyone … except ourselves.

Did your big break turn into a big bust? Sometimes a great escape from a wounded past can turn into something worse as we discover the wounds were not just from without, but they were within. So regardless of where we go, what we do, who we are with, we carry those wounds with us.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

What was it? Why won't you tell me? I don't want to break down your illusions. My dear man, I have no illusions about you. I mean illusions about yourself.

He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. I know myself, he cried, but that is all.

But all I know — the tremendous importance of myself to me, and the necessity of acknowledging that importance to myself — these things the wise and lovely Gloria was born knowing, these things and the painful futility of trying to know anything else.