Quotes About Self Awareness

Quotes tagged as "self-awareness" (showing 1-50 of 217)

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. Charlotte Bront, Jane Eyre tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women 1,634 people liked it like

I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have. Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay tags: peeta, self-awareness, self-image 889 people liked it like

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't. Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart tags: critics, self-awareness, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-love 721 people liked it like

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. Charlotte Bront, Jane Eyre tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, selfcontainment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude 707 people liked it like

To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I". Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: self-acceptance, self-awareness 702 people liked it like

But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head. Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why tags: accurate, self-awareness 689 people liked it like

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate. Charlotte Bront, Jane Eyre tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, love, men, realism, romance, self-awareness, self-determination, women 622 people liked it like

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. C.G. Jung tags: knowing-others, perception, self-awareness, understanding 617 people liked it like

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. C.G. Jung tags: introspection, psychotherapist, secrets, self-awareness, visions 606 people liked it like

We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.

 Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia tags: introspection, self-awareness 520 people liked it like

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore. C. JoyBell C. tags: belief-in-self, believe-in-yourself, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, life, living, self-awareness, self-belief, self-knowledge, self-love 387 people liked it like

You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it. Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel tags: self-awareness 370 people liked it like

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. Lao Tzu tags: profound, self-awareness, self-discovery 329 people liked it like

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. Hermann Hesse, Demian tags: inspiration, instinct, knowledge, search, seekers, self-awareness, self-discovery, understanding 321 people liked it like

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. C.G. Jung tags: self-awareness, self-discovery 293 people liked it like

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors. Tennessee Williams tags: self-awareness, suicide, vanity 254 people liked it like

I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; were actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that were suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before! C. JoyBell C. tags: human, humanity, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, life, life-andliving, living, people, self-awareness, stars, strength, supernova, truth 254 people liked it like

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities. Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember tags: bitterness, disability, disappointment, emptiness, feelings, fulfillment, happiness, hope, joy, love, potential, relationships, self-awareness 223 people liked it like

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. Janis Joplin tags: self-awareness, self-reliance 219 people liked it like

Find out who you are and do it on purpose. Dolly Parton tags: self-awareness 198 people liked it like

I am who I am; no more, no less. Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule tags: inspirational, self-awareness, self-realization 191 people liked it like

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises tags: denial, self-awareness 175 people liked it like

The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and it's your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who's not full of hate, who's able to smile and be carefree. So that's who I have to be. C. JoyBell C. tags: growth, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-living, inspirationalquotes, inspiring, learning, life, life-and-living, living, self-awareness, self-belief, self-love 169 people liked it like

The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. The difference between my sins and your sins is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions. I am a siren, a mermaid; I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves and I know that I can eat flesh and bones at the bottom of the sea. You are a white witch,

a wizard; your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig. C. JoyBell C. tags: badness, fake, genuine, genuineness, goodness, hypocrisy, mermaid, self-acceptance, selfawareness, siren, white-witch, wizard 163 people liked it like

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are! John Lennon tags: be-yourself, inspirational, self-awareness, self-determination 161 people liked it like

I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way. C. JoyBell C. tags: fitting-in, individuality, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-quotes, self-awareness, self-knowledge, stereotypes, uniqueness 161 people liked it like

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently. Pema Chdrn, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times tags: courage, mindfulness, pain, self-awareness, truth 149 people liked it like

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, selfcontainment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude 142 people liked it like

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides. Andr Malraux

tags: deception, hiding, lies, man, secrets, self-awareness 123 people liked it like

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. Jim Morrison tags: conditioning, evolution, evolving, freedom, individuality, jim-morrison, murder, parents, potential, progress, self, self-awareness 117 people liked it like

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around. Oprah Winfrey, The Uncommon Wisdom Of Oprah Winfrey: A Portrait in Her Own Words tags: self-awareness 111 people liked it like

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet. Jane Austen, Persuasion tags: aspiration, self-awareness, self-improvement 98 people liked it like

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness. Hermann Hesse tags: self-awareness, self-discovery, synchronicity, work 96 people liked it like

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one. Ashly Lorenzana tags: deception, forced, honesty, identity, lies, life, morality, self-awareness 94 people liked it like

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Charlotte Bront, Jane Eyre tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women 94 people liked it like

We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before they have even spoken to them. What's even worse is that these same people decide who someone else is, and don't even know who they are themselves. Ashly Lorenzana tags: impressions, judgement, life, opinions, people, self-awareness 80 people liked it like I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right. Muhammad Ali Jinnah tags: inspirational, positive-attitude, self-awareness, self-confidence, self-improvement 80 people liked it like

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. Carl R. Rogers tags: paradox, self-awareness, self-improvement 74 people liked it like

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential. Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole tags: self-awareness, self-discovery 64 people liked it like

The Way to do is to be. Lao Tzu

tags: meditation, self-awareness, self-discovery 64 people liked it like

Maybe from as early as when you're five or six, there's been a whisper going at the back of your head, saying: One day, maybe not so long from now, you'll get to know how it feels. So you're waiting, even if you don't quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realise that you really are different to them; that there are people out there, like Madame, who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you of how you were brought into this world and why and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs. The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange. Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go tags: outsiders, perception, rejection, self-awareness 63 people liked it like

Through others we become ourselves. Lev S. Vygotsky tags: development, educatin, identity, imitation, psychology, self-awareness 62 people liked it like

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday. Rumi tags: change, inspirational, self-awareness 58 people liked it like

Indecision may or may not be my problem. Jimmy Buffett tags: self-awareness 55 people liked it like

To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it. C. JoyBell C. tags: bravery, courage, fear, fears, inspirational-life, inspirational-living, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, know-thyself, know-yourself, life, life-and-living, living, living-life, self-awareness, self-knowledge, thesignificance-of-fear, wisdom, wisdom-quotes 51 people liked it like

Yes! I'm me! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I think! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am! Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30) tags: humor, nerdy, self-awareness 47 people liked it like

*I+t doesnt matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you dont know who you are, or if youve forgotten or misplaced her, then youll always feel as if you dont belong. Anywhere. (xiii) Sarah Breathnach, Moving on: Creating Your House of Belonging with Simple Abundance tags: belonging, life, love, place, self-awareness, self-knowledge, yourself 43 people liked it like

If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you. Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello tags: dance, ritual, self-awareness 36 people liked it like

I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had. Jim McDonald tags: inner-peace, inspirational, self-awareness, suffering 35 people liked it like

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself. Albert Schweitzer, Reverence for Life: The Words of Albert Schweitzer