Quotes about Self-awareness

I can't control the things that happen to me each day, but I can control how I think about them.

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and a man no longer believes he is a man.

There are two kinds of people in this world; the clueless and the repentant, those who are open to looking at their life, and those who are not, both that know they need God to change them, and those that expect EVERYONE else to change.

Sartre felt that Hell is other people, but precisely the opposite is true. Hell is being left alone forever with no other reality than your own consciousness of yourself. It is being locked in a casket of your own internal chaos with no hope of a window, or door leading in light from outside to give you a moment's respite from yourself. Hell is the refusal of the gift of the other.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

Friend, Christ has bestowed on you an identity. The best thing you can do is ask him to reveal it to you.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

A form of self-delusion.

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.