Self Awareness Quotes

Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both

~ Leo Buscaglia

And I Said To My Soul, Be LoudMadden me back to an afternoonI carry in menot like a woundbut like a will against a woundGive me again enough manto be the childchoosing my own annihilationsTo make of this severed limba wand to conjurea weapon to shatterdark matter of the dirt daubers' nestsgalaxies of glassWhacking glintsbash-dancing on the cellar's fireI am the sound the sun would makeif the sun could make a soundand the gasp of rotstabbed from the compost's lumpen living deathis meO my life my war in a jarI shake you and shake youand may the best ant winFor I am come a whirlwind of wasted thingsand I will ride this tantrum back to Goduntil my fixed self, my fluorescent selfmy grief–nibbling, unbewildered, wall–to–wall selfwithers in me like a salted slug

~ Christian Wiman

If I say, “I am weak,” I ensure that I stay weak. If I say, “I cannot,” “I’m not the type to,” “I am not able,” then I set up a self-fulfilling prophecy. As I think of myself, so I shall be.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and the bonds and its very self.

~ Franz Kafka

Why are you here?Where am I?You have come to this place… to lie in the ground?The derision in the question was clear.I have come to this place to find peace.And what is peace?Laughter in the recesses of his mind.This is peace. Perhaps it is. I don’t know.A pause.Talking to yourself, eh?There is no one else around.That is the beginning of wisdom.And what of it?Who are you?I am Peter.What are you?I… I am that which says I.Clever.Sometimes.He sparked a cigarette, nicotine bringing a touch of stability to his otherwise entirely too excited cognitions.What is I?I am.That is all?I don’t know.Where is I?Where am I?I am between this and that.This is again wisdom.He laughed aloud now, pulling deeply on his smoke, exhaling through clenched teeth.I am space.Of a sort.I am a character in a story.Sometimes.Nothing more?A page of your life turns. Do you see it?Sometimes.The blank of the page, the openness of its margins, do you see?Yes.This is the void of your unfolding imagination.Indeed.Would you fill it with your own story?I am void. I am between. I am neither this nor that. I am an idea of a between.What story would you have?Whatever I can. I am nothing.That is enough?No.What would you be?A man.This is also wisdom.

~ Jeffrey Panzer

No matter the situation don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

~ Turcois Ominek

A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.

~ T.f. Hodge

The only way you can reach your full potential is if you open up and allow your self to be exposed to how you really feel.

~ Turcois Ominek

you can tell who you are the way people respond to you.

~ Turcois Ominek

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

~ Amit Kalantri

You are here on earth to unearth who on earth you are.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.

~ Walt Whitman

...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits

~ John Geddes

The myth of Oedipus . . . arouses powerful intellectual and emotional reactions in the adult-so much so, that it may provide a cathartic experience, as Aristotle taught all tragedy does. [A reader] may wonder why he is so deeply moved; and in responding to what he observes as his emotional reaction, ruminating about the mythical events and what these mean to him, a person may come to clarify his thoughts and feelings. With this, certain inner tensions which are the consequence of events long past may be relieved; previously unconscious material can then enter one's awareness and become accessible for conscious working through. This can happen if the observer is deeply moved emotionally by the myth, and at the sametime strongly motivated intellectually to understand it.

~ Bruno Bettelheim

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

~ Flannery O'connor

Be real. Embrace that you have weakness. Because everyone does. Embrace that your body is not perfect. Because nobody’s is. Embrace that you have things you can’t control. We all have a list of them.

~ Dan Pearce

How can you get through to yourself?

~ Alexandra Katehakis

It’s probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are. (413)

~ Victoria Moran

I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional ideal is to eat nothing at all, and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.

~ Helen Fielding

Some of us are filled with a unique inner light. Others around us cease to exist because of it. The light opaques them. The outcome is, they will try everything in their power to tear it off, from you. Unless you accept their terms; to give up that uniqueness, forever.“Now, my question for you is: Are you a people pleaser or are you one of us?

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Make room for who you are by knowing who you’re not.

~ Abby Fabiaschi

Self Hate: The deadliest 'dis-ease' experienced by wounded souls.

~ T.f. Hodge

You know, that's what you've been doing in a way--coming out. Coming out of your room. Coming out of your house. Coming out of your shell.

~ Jennifer Niven

I have only been a ‘Poor Me’ once or twice in my life…. And that was my own fault.

~ Gary Hopkins

Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk—essential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Without courageous action, Hope is a Universal liar.

~ Sahithi Setikam

Nobody can help you as much as you can help yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The mere fact that I exist, means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn way I please.

~ Euphoria Godsent

When you think yourself as nothing,Then something important will begin

~ Rajesh Nanoo

I had battled my own demons that day, facing down the thing that imprisoned me since the accident-a scar and the diffidence it created inside of me. But it was just a physical blemish, not something that made me who I am. It took a mentally disturbed murderer who gave me a sneak peak at death to show me that.

~ Pamela Crane

Remember that this is YOUR LIFE, and nothing is more important than YOU.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Through my pain and sorrow, God has prepared me to share His word with others in a way that was made just for me.

~ Latorria Freeman

Introspection is not a privilege, you don't have to subscribe to it. On any occasion you can discover wisdom and oneself.

~ Unarine Ramaru

One day I realized, I am what I'm looking for. The love I've been searching the world for. When I devoutly love myself it's fulfilling, and it attracts others. They fight to love me twice as much.

~ Euphoria Godsent

You are you, no one else is you, you are the right you, and the right you, is the you that you love.

~ Ya'ira Somerville

The greatest tool of self-love is self-awareness. Once you truly know yourself, love is the only option.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

What qualifies your worthiness is your self-regard.

~ Unarine Ramaru