Quotes about Self-awareness

The very key to knowing your purpose is discovering and celebrating your personal identity.

We need to be honest with ourselves. We need a place where we can sit down, reflect, and mourn. However, we must be careful not to mourn over the past longer than necessary. After the funeral, there is always a burial. The burial separates the survivor from the deceased, and it is as far as we can go. So you must come to a place of separation and decide to live on.

He alone whom we must trust to see the very worst in us, yet still think the very best of us.

Sometimes you had to let a person stumble, let 'em fall flat out—no matter how much it hurt to see—before they could come to grips with how bad off they were. Because until a person realized that, there wasn't much helping them.

Pope Francis tells us who he is by pointing to Caravaggio's St. Matthew: 'Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze.' He is telling us that he has experienced the same rush of speechless wonder and graced love Caravaggio depicts in his painting.

There is no point in spending time with someone who makes you forget your sense of self.

Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.

Before criticizing your wife's faults remember that they may have prevented her from getting a better husband.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.