Quotes About Self-awareness

You can make the experience of living with yourself the most wonderful experience imaginable.

If you find yourself saying, "Everyone always does such and such to me, criticizes me, is never there for me, uses me like a doormat, abuses me," then this is YOUR PATTERN. There is some thought in you that attracts people who exhibit this behavior. When you no longer think that way, they will go elsewhere and do that to somebody else. You will no longer attract them.

I Find That Resentment, Criticism, Guilt, and Fear Cause More Problems Than Anything Else These four things cause the major problems in our bodies and in our lives. These feelings come from blaming others and not taking responsibility for our own experiences. You see, if we are all responsible for everything in our lives, then there is no one to blame. Whatever is happening "out there" is only a mirror of our own inner thinking.

YOUR MIND IS A TOOL YOU CAN CHOOSE TO USE ANY WAY YOU WISH. The thoughts you "choose" to think create the experiences you have. If you believe that it is hard or difficult to change a habit or a thought, then your choice of this thought will make it true for you. If you would choose to think, "It is becoming easier for me to make changes," then your choice of this thought will make that true for you.

You are in control of your mind.

Every time you say, "I don't know," you shut the door to your own inner wisdom.

I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.

I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, 'I might be wrong.

After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she'd looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn't joking. He was warning her.

To remain conscious and continent was her new goal.

Be careful. You're making hurting a habit. Spreading it around won't lessen your pain, you know. Just the opposite.

it's not the truth about others that will set you free, but the truth about yourself.

But you knew what would happen. Why would you choose to walk right into a situation where you know the person is going to be hurtful? It kills me to see you do that, and you do it all the time. It's like a form of insanity. - Peter Morrow You call it insanity, I call it optimism. - Clara Morrow

Control your thoughts and you can control your emotions. Do you trust me?

FINE stands for Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic and Egotistical. I'm FINE.

I often think we should have tattooed to the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, "I might be wrong.

The reason Armand Gamache could go there was because it wasn't totally foreign to him. He knew it because he'd seen his own burned terrain, he'd walked off the familiar and comfortable path inside his own head and heart and seen what festered in the dark. And one day Jean Guy Beauvoir would look at his own monsters, and then be able to recognize others. And maybe this was the day and this was the case. He hoped so.

But being essentially a dumpster fire herself, she was familiar with flames.

A mind with absolutely no insight into itself, a mind filled with purpose and delusion.

Don't believe everything you think. Chief Inspector Gamache wrote that on the board for the incoming cadets at the start of every year at the Sûreté academy, and it stayed there all year.

I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.' Myrna

Armand Gamache wondered whether CC de Poitiers was at that very moment trying to explain herself to a perplexed God and two very angry seals.

There are four statements that lead to wisdom. I want you to remember them and follow them. Are you ready?' Agent Lemieux had taken out his notebook and, pen poised, he'd listened. 'You need to learn to say: I don't know. I'm sorry. I need help and I was wrong.' Agent

the wiry, self-contained man had stared at him for a few seconds then invited him to sit and told him the four sentences that lead to wisdom. He'd said them only once, never repeating them. But once had been enough for Gamache. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know.