Quotes About Self-awareness

When you squeeze an orange, you'll always get orange juice to come out. What comes out is what's inside. The same logic applies to you: when someone squeezes you, puts pressure on you, or says something unflattering or critical, and out of you comes anger, hatred, bitterness, tension, depression, or anxiety, that is what's inside. If love and joy are what you want to give and receive, change your life by changing what's inside.

Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

Think about every single person who has ever harmed you, cheated you, defrauded you, or said unkind things about you. Your experience of them is nothing more than a thought that you carry around with you. These thoughts of resentment, anger, and hatred represent slow, debilitating energies that will disempower you. If you could release them, you would know more peace.

Remove all unloving thoughts from your mind, and practice kindness in all of your thoughts, words, and actions. Cultivate

I think and that is all that I am.

Focus on understanding yourself instead of blaming others.

Until you transcend the ego, you can do nothing but add to the insanity of the world.

You feel good not because the world is right, but your world is right because you feel good.

Syllogism ? Major premise: I can control my thoughts. Minor premise: My feelings come from my thoughts. Conclusion: I can control my feelings.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. —ALDOUS HUXLEY

Do not give attention to what others do or fail to do; give attention to what you do or fail to do

as you realize that you are responsible for your reactions in any given moment, others will cease to have any power or control over you.

Living by being instead of trying

You cannot manifest thin from thoughts of I hate being fat. You cannot manifest purity from I despise being an addict. You cannot manifest health from I abhor being sick. In each of the above assertions of what you dislike, you are giving of your thoughts to creating more and more of the same. Since you become what you think about all day long, once again, the solutions involve a different level of energy to any of these and similar circumstances.

Release Others' Expectations. If you focus on what others expect of you, you'll continue to act on and attract more of what they desire for you. But when you can shift your inner thoughts to what you intend to create and attract into your life, you will no longer have to give mental energy to what others want for you....

No dejes que los planes que tienes para ti sean más importantes que tú mismo

If you follow the herd, you'll end up stepping in shit." The shit I refer to is living with yourself when you ignore what you know to be right and true and instead follow the "offal" instructions of others who are afraid to leave the herd and want you to be just like everybody else.

The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.

if you don't feel fabulous, you have deviated from the path of who-you-really-are.

Guilt is the most useless of all erroneous zone behaviors. It is by far the greatest waste of emotional energy. Why? Because, by definition, you are feeling immobilized in the present over something that has already taken place, and no amount of guilt can ever change history.

Remind yourself that what other people do is not what bothers you, it's your reaction to it. Instead of saying "They shouldn't do that," say, "I wonder why I bother myself with what they are doing.

It's easy to use the label as justification for remaining the same. Sören Kierkegaard wrote, "Once you label me, you negate me." When the individual must live up to the label

Reread that quote carefully. If you are not the master of yourself, then by this definition you are not free. You do not have to be overtly powerful and exert influence over others to be free, nor is it necessary to intimidate others, nor to try to bully people into submission in order to prove your own mastery.