self-awareness quotes

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

I already am a product.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

What you are comes to you.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.