Libba Bray Quotes

Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Learning how to contract your power and personality is of incredible importance.

In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.

It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

Every moment is an invitation to live out of your weakness or to live out of your strength.

I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.