Knowing Oneself Quotes

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

~ Bruce Lee

Every heartbeat a syllable for words I can’t speak, to explain what I want from him. What I want from myself. To know and be known, totally and completely. To be someone worth knowing.

~ Ryan Galloway

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

~ Deepak Chopra

It's him, I feel it.

~ Nikki Rowe

Often times it is difficult to rely on your judgment when the focus on your true objective is out of alignment.

~ Mark W. Boyer

You may know how to operate computers. You may know a lot about medicine or robots. You may be a doctor, lawyer, teacher, or specialist… but, if you don’t know how YOU operate, why your life is the way it is, and how to increase fulfillment, love, and peace in your life - then all the knowledge and degrees aren’t really worth much!

~ Maddy Malhotra

Being single is like being an artist, not because creating a functional single life is an art form, but because it requires the same close attention to one's singular needs, as well as the will and focus to fulfill them. Just as the artist arranges her life around her creativity, sacrificing conventional comforts and even social acceptance, sleeping and eating according to her own rhythms, so that her talent thrives above all else, nurtured the way a child might be, so a single person has to think hard to decipher what makes her happiest and most fulfilled.

~ Kate Bolick

If you know who you are then your ego feels safe instead of fearful, and is more open to exploration.

~ Julia Woodman

A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

...the whole 'know thyself' thing isn’t a journey to a fixed destination. Learning about myself changes me, forcing me to learn more. 'Know thyself' isn’t a goal; it’s a road.

~ Garon Whited

A little amount of secret is a great pillar of the mind. He who does not have what somebody does not know, have what everybody knows. Know your secret; keep your secret. He who knows what to keep, knows what real life is all about

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Sometimes it’s only in the ecstasy of unrepressed movement that we may enter the stillness of our authentic selves. In such sacred moments, the world seems to be in step. This is why the idea of finding love across the dance floor endure — symbolizing that, when we know the true rhythm of our heart, we know the other.

~ Alexandra Katehakis

How to recognize what is real? To know the layers and depths of oneself, to know how to open, to know how to fill a capacious hold-all, to know one’s own quirks and nervous twitches, cravings and transparencies, and, above all the force, literally the force, of events, connections, the wild calm in every thing.

~ Shawna Lemay

The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.

~ Bryant Mcgill

In a few seconds, we judge another person and think we know them. When, the person we’ve lived with the longest, we still don’t know very well—ourselves.

~ Charles F. Glassman

She did not understand why women complicated their lives with corsets and petticoats, so she sewed herself a coarse cassock that she simply put over her and without further difficulties resolved the problem of dress, without taking away the feeling of being naked, which according to her lights was the only decent way to be when at home.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

To be young and not to know how, is bearable; to be old and not have the strength, is too great a weight to carry. And what's is so painful you can't sense your powers leaving you. It's hard for an old man to ensure such blows!

~ Ivan Turgenev

Your spiritual path isn't always just something you find, you started it the moment you took your first breath, and ever since you're been getting closer and closer to remembering who you truly are!

~ Martin R. Lemieux

Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves - except, that is, in the glimmer of a moment of fair business between strangers, or the nod of knowing and agreement between friends. Other than these, we go out anonymous into the insect air and all we are is the dust of colour, brief engineering of wings towards a glint of light on a blade of grass or a leaf in a summer dark.Azide Smith, How to be Both

~ Zadie Smith

One who knows One, knows Everyone

~ Syed Sharukh

Where you've been or haven't been does not make you who you are. -Faolan

~ Brittany L. Engels

Connecting with yourself and knowing yourself is a monumental and life changing event.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center.

~ Richie Norton

We can only speak the truth that we know at the time it is known.

~ Sharon Lee

Find comfort in questioning yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill