Quotes About Self-awareness

A healthy marriage is the union of two already complete people who choose to invest in each other. Two people who drain each other because they have nothing to invest - only withdrawals to take from each other - make for a very unhealthy, unfulfilling relationships.

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

My friends call me by my name." "You don't have any friends." "I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong.

I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.' Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.

Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself--

I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

Why did everyone else seem fine but I felt as if I were living in a cage I'd outgrown two shoe sizes ago?

Some people do have faces like that. Though I've been told mine is one, and I disagree. I have never wanted to punch myself in the

Ani saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare.

Oh, it's not that I don't care about her, or anyone else." Ani thought perhaps it was that she cared too much. She was constantly worried about what others thought of her, and how every word she spoke could condemn her further. Ani thought how to explain that to Selia and decided that she could not. Selia's ease with strangers and friends alike made Ani sure she would not understand.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

What's wrong with you?" Nika asks Madoc. He responds, "I'm an incurable asshole.

Today's society has decided it's better to assume, deceive or lie to ourselves to spare our own feelings. When accepted the truth will set us free. Anything aside from that will torment us. Feelings are made from thoughts; thoughts can be controled. We fall in love because we THINK about how wonderful someone is; we hate because we can't stop THINKING about what they did to us. In the end, WE control our own thoughts and feelings.

We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger?

Handsome young men should not act as if they know it.

I think pain is a thing that, when it fills your cup, you shouldn't keep pouring from the pitcher.

Surely there was not another soul in England that could delude themselves like I could.

What we see in the world around us is just a reflection of what is inside of us.

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You must never assume or accept blame for being alive.

Why are you always right, Captain?" "Now, do you know, my perspective is that I'm often wrong.