Quotes about Self-awareness

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.

Identity always precedes behavior. What you need is someone to come alongside you and help you remember who you are and to whom you belong.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

When we experience God for who He really is, we suddenly see ourselves for who we are.

I challenge you to be finished with rationalizations and hypocrisy.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

Because in prayer I expand my sense of how I have offended God. And I thereby lower my sense of how much others have offended me. Prayer is changing me.

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them." "Yes," said Harriet, "but I am one of them. I disconcert myself very much. I never know what I do feel." "I don't think that matters, provided one doesn't try to persuade one's self into appropriate feelings.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.