Quotes about Self-awareness

Proverbs 14:10 that "each heart knows its own bitterness" (NIV), and I think he was on to something. No other human can climb down our throats like a spelunker and

Lord, at whatever point I judge another person, Your Word says I am condemning myself, because those of us who pass judgment do the same things. Now I know that Your judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. So when I, a mere human, pass judgment on others and yet do the same things, do I think I will escape Your judgment? (Rom. 2:1—2). If I do not judge, I will not be judged. If I do not condemn, I will not be condemned. If I

Better to admit where you're not and ask God's help to get you where you need to be.

Our daily lives demonstrate what we really believe about ourselves.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

Individuals who are realized in their own lives almost never criticize others. If they speak at all, it is to offer encouragement. Watch yourself. Of all the manifestations of Resistance, most only harm ourselves. Criticism and cruelty harm others as well.

Nobody knew I was done. Nobody cared. But I knew. I felt like a dragon I'd been fighting all my life had just dropped dead at my feet and gasped out its last sulfuric breath. Rest in peace, motherfucker.

Instead of applying self-knowledge, self-discipline, delayed gratification and hard work, we simply consume a product.

The professional is prepared at a deeper level. He is prepared, each day, to confront his own self-sabotage.

You become an artist once you start saying that you are an artist.