Quotes About Self-awareness

No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet. That's when the desire to connect becomes an unrealistic need. Unrealistic neediness is actually greediness in disguise. It's saying, "My needs and desires deserve to tap into or possibly even deplete yours." This will never set a relationship up for success.

The hurt was caused by someone else, but the resulting feelings are mine to manage.

Whenever any kind of relationship conflict arises, my choice is whether to give the other person power to control my emotions.

What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.

I have these boundaries in place not for restriction but to define the parameters of my freedom. My brokenness can't handle more freedom than this right now. And I'm good with that.

And honestly, I'm tired of knowing I have issues but having no clue how to rein them in on a given day. I need something simple. A quick reality check I can remember in the midst of the everyday messies.

Negative self-talk was a rejection from my past that I had allowed to settle into the core of who I am.

It's so easy to park our minds in bad spots. But this is where pity parties are held, and we all know pity parties demand an abundance of high calorie delights. Pity parties are also a cruel way to entertain, for they leave behind a deeper emptiness than we started with.

We'll tell you all about our broken places of yesterday but don't dare admit the limitations of our today.

In the quiet, we feel safe enough to humble ourselves.

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret." In other words, taste a little bit of the shame of letting it all rip before you find yourself drowning in gallons of unwanted regret.

I realized that neither Paul nor Barnabas were bad people. They were good people. But they weren't good together. And that's okay. It's so much healthier to be brave enough to go your separate ways than to keep stuffing and drown in a sea of bitterness.

I can't expect a perfection in others I'm not even capable of living out myself.

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (NLV).

When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. Or something. I dunno, I was only half listening. Becca said it, anyway. Ask her.

The only guy I have to get better than is who I am right now.

To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.

In truth, doing does not determine being; rather, being determines doing. It is only after we have a firm understanding of who we are that we know what to do with life.

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

My life and my mind, I realized, were screwed up enough without me adding to it with drugs.

In his heart, the joy of living fought with the hurt of it until he could no longer separate them, and the effort made him understand that they were not him. That he was apart from them, evaluating them. The