#rene

If you were determined to get enjoyment out of every moment, you would learn to do whatever it took. What it takes is not listening to negative thoughts, yours or anyone else's. Disregarding negative thoughts isn't hiding our head in the sand, but simply not allowing the negative to clutter and influence over our experience of the present moment. The moment is never improved or helped by negativity, although we are programmed to think our negative thoughts, worries, and fears serve a useful function. When you really examine this idea, however, you see that negativity doesn't serve. Focusing on negativity and fears doesn't make anyone a better person, nor does doing that help us function better in the world. In fact, the truth is quite the opposite. ↗

— Gina Lake

#self-awareness #worries #experience

Being spontaneous is being able to respond with confidence; calmly trusting that, whatever the outcome, you will have a positive if challenging experience that will lead to greater self-awareness and success. ↗

— Sylvia Clare

#self-awareness #spontaneity #experience

There is no other experience more empowering and undying than the experience of uniting unconditionally with the Conscience of God. From the forthcoming book: What is Man. ↗

— Rohan Perera

#conscious-awareness #consciousness-explained #experience

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#fear #humorous-truism #self-awareness #humor

Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow. Awareness of others is a healthy antidote to this self-focus. ↗

— Kevin Malarkey

#inspirational #self-pity #inspirational

How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else? ↗

— Madeline Claire Franklin

#family #introspection #life #self-awareness #the-poppet-and-the-lune

Were you aware that my sister looks like my brother? They both look nonexistent. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#awareness #brother #family #nonexistent #sister

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me. ↗

— John Kennedy Toole

#motherhood #mrs-irene-riley #family

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#create #food #light #major #major things

I'll tell you what's real. Real is that I was in jail for the past year, rooming with drug dealers and eating crap food your dog wouldn't touch. Real is not being able to wear your own frickin' underwear and showering with twenty-five other dicks every day while guards watch. Real is my next-door neighbor who walks like she's balancing on stilts because her leg is so fucked up from the accident. Brian, your perception of reality is totally off. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#caleb #reality #self-awareness-honesty-self #food