Quotes About Self-awareness

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

And maybe, just maybe, by letting go of who you think you should be, you become more of who you are meant to be." (pg. 249)

Don't point out your flaws, because the world is not as sympathetic and nurturing as you think.

How had it escaped her, Rosalind wondered. How had she never appreciated that her mother was a human being with her own desires and disappointments?

It's the worst feeling," she said staring off vaguely, lost in another decade, "it's really the most shattering moment when you stop being enchanting to someone else. You're suddenly,,,just this person. And so is he.

The more we try to control the things outside of us the more we lose control of our mind.

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

Use your inner resources. Stop trying to distract yourself with tiny pictures and other people's lives. You're distracting yourself from things you ought to be owning up to.

You only like guys you don't have a chance with, because you're scared.

Some girls are pretty and they were born for it but no matter what always be yourself because people might see the wrong side of you

Please, Peter. I know her well and so do you. Well, I did know her well. But I don't think people change at the core. They are who they are.

In truth, if Kitty's anyone, she's a Jefferson. Wily, stylish, quick with a comeback. Margot's an Angelica, no question. She's been sailing her own ship since she was a little girl. She's always known who she was and what she wanted. I suppose I'm an Eliza, though I'd much rather be an Angelica. In truth I'm probably And Peggy. But I don't want to be the And Peggy of my own story. I want to be the Hamilton.

Why can't you just let it go? Why do you have to hold on to all the shitty stuff that's ever happened to you?" "Because I live in reality, unlike you. You'd rather live in a fantasy world than see people for who they really are.

What else had I remembered wrong? I was a person who loved to play Remember When in my head. I'd always prided myself on how I remembered every detail. It scared me to think that my memories could be just ever-so-slightly wrong.

Because you think EVERYONE loves you, Peter. That's what I hate about you. Because everyone does love you.

I don't want to be a girl who gets her heart broken, but I also don't really want to break boys' hearts.

I cannot believe that John Ambrose McClaren read that letter. I didn't remember it to be so...naked. With so much...yearning. God, why do I have to be a person who yearns so much?

and you will feel abject regret, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself.

God, I've cried twice today! It's so un-me.

I don't know why I'm sitting here trying to give you advice. I'm a single divorcee and I'm forty. Two. Forty-two. What do I know about anything? That's a rhetorical question, by the way.

Your mouth is writin' checks your butt can't cash

And you need to know what you're saying no to.

I'm not going to win any contests, but at least people will know what I am. I wish I never have to answer a What are you? question ever again.