Quotes about Self-awareness

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

We all get wrapped up in the cool thing of the moment, but I think it's more important to stick to what works for you.

When you get older, you have to wrestle with what's appropriate behavior a little bit more. Am I not acting too old or too young?

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

Comfort & peace never come from anything we know about ourselves, but only & always from what we know about Him.

People don't realize it hurts my feelings when someone looks at my hair or my eyes, and says, 'But you're not actually black. You're black, but you're not black black, because your eyes are green.' I'm like, 'What? No, no, I'm definitely black.' Even some of my closest friends have said that. It's been a bit touchy for me.

People tell me all the time you have to be mentally tough to win the championship, and I feel like enough people hype it up to where you have to act different come playoff time. But I'm not a tough guy. So I don't know how to be tough. I don't know what I'm 'supposed' to be doing.

You can't run away from yourself.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.