Quotes about Self-awareness

Anger is self-immolation.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

O]ne can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.

It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.

I know for a while again the health of self-forgetfulness. Sabbaths 2000 V

We are in the habit of contention—against the world, against each other, against ourselves. It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.

felt older. I felt that I had seen ages of the world come and go. Now, finally, I really had lost all desire for change, every last twinge of the notion that I ought to get somewhere or make something of myself. I was what I was. "I will stand like a tree," I thought, "and be in myself as I am." And the things of Port William seemed to stand around me, in themselves as they were.

If we are serious about these big problems, we have got to see that the solutions begin and end with ourselves. Thus we put an end to our habit of oversimplification. If we want to stop the impoverishment of land and people, we ourselves must be prepared to become poorer. If

We don't know much about our current selves, do we?