Quotes about Self-awareness

Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

You know who you are. And I suggest you never deny it.

But at long last she had some privacy and could go more than ten minutes without someone getting in her business, informing her that everything she did was wrong. As if she didn't already know that.

Should I judge myself?" she ventured to ask. "Or should I leave that to the Almighty, who forgives us all for being what He made us?

No one escapes a time in life when the arrow of sorrow, of anger, of despair pierces the heart. For many of us, there is the inevitable need to circle the wound. It is often such a surprise to find it there, in us, when we had assumed arrows so painful only landed in the hearts of other people. Some of us spend decades screaming at the archer. Or at least for longer periods than are good for us. How to take the arrow out of the heart? How to learn to relieve our own pain? That is the question.

We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, and our own self is what us have to hand.

If you know your heart sorry, I say, that mean it not quite as spoilt as you think.