Quotes about Self-awareness

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.

That place that I had been most sure that I was right was the place that I was most wrong.

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.

When I ask God to change my actions, that honesty about my own inconsistent behaviors forces me not to be so hard on other believers. Humble acknowledgment of the plank in my own eye gives me more patience with the specks in everyone else's (see Matthew 7:1-5). Instead of pointing the finger at others, let's allow God to examine us.

When you believe marriage is your answer, you'll often give something that eventually hurts you both.

Even on the stage, I've played a bit of a persona, and the persona I played was a much brasher, more arrogant, less aware, less educated version of me.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Every time you think the problem is 'out there,' that very thought is the problem.

If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.