Quotes about Self-awareness
Anger looks down from the judge's perch; wisdom comes down from those heights and looks up from below. Humility captures it.
- Edward Welch
If you are casual about anger and unprepared, you will lose and so will those around you.
- Edward Welch
Anger takes everything personally, as if everything is an intentional act to make your life miserable.
- Edward Welch
The fastest way to bring a wrecking ball to our skewed interpretations is through confession.
- Edward Welch
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
- Albert Camus
The doctor of the future will be oneself.
- Albert Schweitzer
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
- Albert Schweitzer
You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
- Drew Barrymore
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
- William James
Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling there. If we open the door to them or keep hashing over past incidents in our minds, we have only ourselves to blame.
- Mother Angelica
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
- Edith Wharton
To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich