Quotes about Self-knowledge
I`m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I`m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can`t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don`t deserve me at my best.
I`m good but not an angel, I do sin but I`m not the devil. I`m just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I`m not perfect and I don`t live to be. But, before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.
According to Jung, a stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. [...] How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you`ll always be alone.
Mutual shame we hide our eyes, to blind them from the truth that finds a way for who we are.
Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
I had always been able to gaze in the mirror and see whatever I wanted to see. After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.