Terry McMillan Quotes

Anger is a call for awareness.

Know yourself to improve yourself.

I was quite a different child, I felt isolated. In time, that level of being with yourself crystallises who you are, and you can see what other people are without being blinded by what they want from you.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

I observe myself and I come to know others.

I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.

The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues.

I'm such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person that everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply. And when you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. And when you know yourself, you know life.

All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to yourself.

When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the wind like chaff, But yours you hide, Like a cheat covering up an unlucky throw. Dwelling on your brother's faults Multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

With each new character, I find something new about myself that I didn't know before.