Quotes about Self-awareness

Mentat, solve thyself, he thought.

I try not to be an ideologue about anything. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'm willing to evolve.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

I say "Out" to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.

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.

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daughter, even though my lacks are in areas different from her complaints. Haven't I learned yet that the desire to be perfect is always disastrous and, at the least, loses me in the mire of false guilt?

We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means that we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues and thanked God that he was not like other men.