Laurie Helgoe Quotes

I think as I've gotten older and the things I've gone through, I'm not as concerned about what everybody thinks.

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

You learn to accept your own reality.

I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.

I find that we must be careful not to judge or weigh in on anything other than ourselves. I am living and learning this still!

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

Is being single hard? It depends where your mind is. If you are focused, being single is an enjoyable experience, but if you hate being alone, you'll hate being single. I think it depends on the individual are where they are in life.

I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.

I don't think it's healthy to buy into hype in any form, whether it's positive or negative. You have to exist in yourself and just move on with life.

The more you can be self-aware and honest about yourself, the more you can cultivate that in other people.

I've gotten to the point where I've gotten comfortable with my awkwardness.

I always call myself a recovering narcissist. I lived my life thinking everything was about me.

Knowing what you want is not a shortcoming. Let people deal with their own anxieties.

Am I completely indifferent to criticism? No, not at all. But I know who I am and I have learned to respect and care for who I am.

What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.

I don't care what people think about me, I care what they think about themselves.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

We have to get good at being with ourselves before we can hope to be good at being in relationships with others.

Many of us have a need to be right. We then set out to make ourselves right by making someone else wrong. We must get right with ourselves. Once we do, we will have so much to do, we will not have time to keep track of who is wrong.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.

I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.