Quotes about Self-awareness

When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

It's important to embrace several truths about yourself and those around you, beginning with this one: who you AREN'T isn't interesting.

I can't find one place in the teachings of Jesus, or the Bible for that matter, where we are to identity ourselves first and foremost as sinners.

We rob ourselves of immeasurable joy when we compare what we do know about ourselves with what we don't know about someone else.

It is your responsibility to stop listening to voices that hinder your ongoing growth and maturity.

And now here's the twist, the mystery, the unexpected truth about admitting that takes us back to the counterintuitive power of gospel: When you come to the end of yourself, you are at that exact moment in the kind of place where you can fully experience the God who is for you.

When you do crash and burn, ask yourself lots of questions about whatever it is that happened: What can you learn here? How will you see things differently moving forward? Why did I do that? leads to, What have I learned? leads to, How will I do it differently in the future?

Your life today is the sum total of your choices. So if you're not happy with it, look back at your choices and start making different ones. Even if you are struck by lighting and injured, you made choices that led you to that spot at a particular time - and you get to choose how you feel about it afterward.

I feel rather blue to-night. I am a horrid little goose, I know - but the trouble is, I can't help being a horrid little goose.