Self-awareness Quotes

"A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens."

- Michel de Montaigne

"Stop waiting for them to fix you. They are the thing that broke you."

- Mairéad McCarron

"Don’t drift into self-pity because it doesn’t solve any problems. Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought."

- Charlie Munger

"We are not our stories, our dramas, or our wrongdoings. We are love."

- Gabby Bernstein

"No one and nothing can free you but your own understanding."

- Ajahn Chah

"When someone stabs you it’s not your fault that you feel pain."

- Louise Penny

"You’ll stop hurting when you stop hoping."

- Guillaume Musso

"If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind."

- Shannon L. Alder

"I have never been hurt by what I have not said."

- Calvin Coolidge

"I can’t know how you’ve been hurt, but using your hurt to believe the wrong things ain’t good either."

- Pepper Basham

"What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them."

- Veronica Roth

"Don’t lock yourself away from those who care about you because you think you’ll hurt them or they’ll hurt you. What point is there in being human if you don’t let yourself feel anything?"

- Sabaa Tahir

"In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show."

- Janet Fitch

"Pain lets me see the hurt inside."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"One thing you can’t hide — is when you’re crippled inside."

- John Lennon

"The deepest wounds aren’t the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people."

- Isobelle Carmody

"You decide for yourself when it will hurt."

- Per Petterson

"We are fragile beings, yet we often act as though we couldn’t be hurt, and as though we couldn’t hurt other people."

- Jocelyn Soriano

"Intentions aside, we’re all capable of hurting people."

- Melanie A. Smith

"You must know the width of the knife and how it ruined you, name the organs it kissed."

- Olivia Gatwood

"My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order."

- Dolly Parton

"Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us."

- Peter de Vries

"You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate."

- John Lennon

"Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty."

- John Lennon

"Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty."

- John Lennon

"A genius is a form of madness, and we’re all that way, you know."

- John Lennon

"I must remember to consult you before forming any opinions of my own. How foolish of me."

"I'm not a morning person, I'm a coffee person."

"Your secrets are safe with me. I wasn't even listening."

"It doesn’t matter what others are doing, it matters what _you_ are doing."