Quotes About Self-awareness

when you own your feelings, you have lots of choices. You can talk about how you feel, you can choose whether or not you want to act on those feelings, you can learn how to understand yourself better, you can comfort yourself or ask for comfort. Owning your feelings is basic to understanding the boundaries of where you end and the next person begins and the perfect first step toward self-acceptance and self-love.

Only when we're all willing to own our emotions, and let our lovers and friends own theirs, does anyone have the power to change and grow.

A basic precept of intimate communication is that each person owns their own feelings . No one "makes" you feel jealous or insecure—the person who makes you feel that way is you. No matter what the other person is doing, what you feel in response is determined inside you. Even when somebody deliberately tries to hurt you, you make a choice about how you feel.

No matter what the other person is doing, what you feel in response is determined inside you. Even when somebody deliberately tries to hurt you, you make a choice about how you feel. You might feel angry or hurt or frightened or guilty. The choice, not usually conscious, happens inside you.

We each have the responsibility of living our own lives, determining our individual needs, and arranging to get those needs met. We cannot live through a partner, nor can we assume that just because we have a lover, all our needs should automatically be satisfied.

Let jealousy be your teacher. Jealousy can lead you to the very places where you most need healing.

When you own your feelings, you have lots of choices.

Most of us have been struck dumb by the scariest communication task of all—asking for what we want.

the opportunity to meet our internalized abuser. We all have one: it's not if you discover your precious inner bully, it's when.

Another good form of consistency is to be honest with yourself and with your children—when you live your life in integrity, everyone can count on you to be exactly who you, wonderfully, are.

The problem is that when you blame someone else for how you feel, you disempower yourself from finding solutions. If this is someone else's fault, only that person can fix it, right? So poor you can't do anything but sit there and moan. On

The problem is that when you blame someone else for how you feel, you disempower yourself from finding solutions.

To be an ethical slut you need to have very good boundaries that are clear, strong, flexible, and, above all, conscious.

When you respect your limits, other will learn to respect them too.

No one "makes" you feel jealous or insecure, the person who makes you feel that way is you. [...] when you blame someone else for how you feel, you disempower yourself.

all life is conscious, but it is not conscious of being conscious

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

When soul-sexy women are grounded in their God-given identities, they elicit the best from others with whom they are in relationship.

Life isn't for everybody.

Freedom is knowing who you are, and once you know that the rest can straighten out itself if you really know who you are.

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.