Quotes about Self-awareness

But there is an older wisdom that puts it differently: by changing our behavior we can change our feelings.

Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.

These labels are inevitable and in many ways useful but the common element to them is that they are impersonal and partial; when they become all-encompassing, which they too frequently do, they distort our core identity. They say almost nothing, or what is even worse, the wrong thing, about who we actually are.

Every time you criticize someone, you condemn yourself. It takes one to know one. Judgmental criticism of others is a well-known way of escaping detection in your own crimes and misdemeanors.

I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it.

I know very well the difference between my image and who I am.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

Though Mrs. Fontaine smiled, I couldn't help but wonder if she'd sized me up and found me lacking.

We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'