Quotes about Self-awareness

The smart kid teases the dumb kid. The athlete makes fun of the kid with two left feet. Something is so wrong inside us that we can't even handle blessing properly.

So much of our disappointment in relationships is not because we have an unrealistic view of others, but because we have a distorted view of ourselves.

Someone once said that you never see a person in a protest carrying a sign with an arrow pointing downward and with the words "I am the problem" painted on it.

You deal with others with grace when you walk around with the humble realization of how deep your need for grace was and continues to be.

The things you do and say always tell you more about yourself than whoever you're speaking or responding to

Today you will spend solitary moments of conversation with yourself, either listing your complaints or counting your blessings.

We all tend to want to think we are more righteous than we actually are.

Not only does sin blind, but as sinners, we participate in our own blindness. We all swindle ourselves into thinking that we are better than we are, that what we're doing is okay when, in fact, it's not okay in the eyes of God. The spiritual reality is that we're like naked homeless people, but we see ourselves as affluent and well-dressed.

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

Be thankful when you made the right choices and admit it when you didn't.

If we hurry into the holy without preparing our hearts, we will see things not as they are but as we are.

To live by faith—to live wisely—means living with an ever-increasing awareness of the hidden things, not simply a detached general knowledge that, say, "Money can be harmful," but a deep knowledge of ourselves, a true self-awareness of what money is doing to me . . . right now.