Quotes about Self-awareness
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.
— JI Packer
Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.
— St. John Chrysostom
Anger is self-immolation.
— Phillips Brooks
Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
— Thomas a Kempis
Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.
— Marcus Aurelius
Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.
— Charles Swindoll
O]ne can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.
— Wendell Berry
It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.
— Wendell Berry
I know for a while again the health of self-forgetfulness. Sabbaths 2000 V
— Wendell Berry
We are in the habit of contention—against the world, against each other, against ourselves. It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.
— Wendell Berry