Isaac of Nineveh Quotes

A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

In every person, you have a world of personalities and souls, a world of perspectives that you can share. You can get into anyone's shoes. You've got to be willing to stare at the ugliest part of yourself and deal with it.

When you know you're vulnerable, and you know... your strength and your weakness, you can see life with better perspective.

I don't want to sound self-righteous, and I don't want to act like I have it all put together.

I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.

Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.

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

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

I think it would do a lot of people good just to realize how vulnerable they are.

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

Such honesty comes with a price, but when you get past the hurt and shock of realizing that you're faulted and frequently wrong, you also realize that you are really loved and respected for who you are, and you become a better person.

Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.