Self Awareness Quotes

With strong self-esteem you can climb any mountain and weather any storm.

~ Joanne Madeline Moore

Define who you are. Define your future.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As a young gay African, I have been conditioned from an early age to consider my sexuality a dangerous deviation from my true heritage as a Somali by close kin and friends. As a young gay African coming of age in London, there was another whiplash of cultural confusion that one had to recover from again and again: that accepting your sexual identity doesn’t necessarily mean that the wider LGBT community, with its own preconceived notions of what constitutes a valid queer identity, will embrace you any more welcomingly than your own prejudiced kinsfolk do.

~ Diriye Osman

EdgesI am a child throwing rocks into the stream.Challenging the rushing water.Raising my fist and daring fate to do it worst.I am a dancer in the waves of the ocean.Swaying in time with the tide.Pirouetting, the current my only friend.I am the sun, rising across the canyonAscending, and shinning down.Giving the illusion of perception and motion.I am thoughts like a rolling river.Water cascading over the rocks of my soul.Shaping, forming, conforming.I am the peace of the rain forest.Basking in solitudeTranquil, serene, transfixing angles.Reflecting from within.Dripping and dropping. Shaking it off.I am the dust of the galaxy.Yearning to know itself.I am the wind.Wandering. Searching.A storm brewing from within.

~ Tosha Michelle

Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Self motivation leads to acceptance of thyself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

~ Susan Cain

The price you will offer yourself to the world, is how much they will buy you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Each of us have been born with the potential for greatness. We are equals. That doesn't mean we are born into equal circumstances, or have equal skills. What we do have in common, though, is the ability to apply ourselves to achieving that which we desire.

~ Justin Young

The perfect body protects its owner from disease, gives birth to amazing new people and stops your bones from falling out. The end.

~ Heather Hill

It was almost painful to be different.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

I will once again keep my eyes open to the changes so that I won't miss even a single spec of chance. Life is possible, believe it, LIFE'S POSSIBLE!

~ Mphezulu Xetho Dainamyk

As I see, 90%+ (and not less than that) of people go about their lives living 90%+ (and not less) of a lie. choose a different way and live the least truth you might be.

~ Mphezulu Xetho Dainamyk

A life out of balance is a person that doesn’t believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is as fleeting as the wind.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Self-Empowerment is free to anyone who chooses to use it. It comes from within and nowhere else. You cannot buy it, borrow it, steal it or sell it. It is always available to you and never wears out. The only choice you have to make is whether or not you will use it.

~ Gary Hopkins

I have a body, but I am not my body.I have a face, but I am not my face.

~ Iyanla Vanzant

How do you get rid of unhappiness? You must release yourself from the prison you have unknowingly placed yourself in. Come to terms with the fact that there are things that you cannot control. But, just because you don’t ‘control’ something, doesn’t mean it’s going to fall to pieces. That may be the hardest part. We get bent out of shape when something happens that is out of our control, because we don’t understand why it’s happening or where it’s coming from. It’s unsettling. You put your fighting arms up and prepare to battle the world. But, stop for a moment. Think. Where are all of these things coming from?The world is not a wild, untamed place, where things are a free for all. Understand that there is a higher power running the world.

~ Leigh Hershkovich

I'd love to be what I have been.

~ Raheel Farooq

Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

They say you can’t change the past despite the fact it never stops changing you – but that doesn't mean we have to sit back and take it. It may change us, but we have ultimate control over how we let it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.

~ James Patrick Mcdonald

Daydreaming is the purest form of being. Take that away and One suffers.

~ Solange Nicole

Every 'no' is a 'yes' to something.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

~ Criss Jami

What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered when other people pointed them out? I was almost envious.

~ Sarah Dessen

Certainly it would be wonderful if we all knew exactly who we were.

~ Cassandra Clare

I do not run from beauty, my own or anyone else's. If it is a gift, I claim it and I use it. And if it is a curse, well...I claim it and use it. Victoria da Vinci

~ Austin Scott Collins

Some people are born to hold keys, while others are born to use them.

~ A.j. Darkholme

When you bury your head in the sand you leave your backside exposed to those who seek to take advantage.

~ Gary Hopkins

Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically, like writing, putting one word after the other until you have created a whole self and a whole life in the process.

~ Michele Rosenthal

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

I'd spend about an hour, my room darkening around me, wondering what the hell happened to make me so unsure of who I even was. Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world to answer, right? Only for me it hadn't been easy for a very long time.

~ Jennifer Brown

Conscience is worse than death, some people commit suicide to evade it.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

I had wanted to disappear, if only so the cancer could disappear with me. But the stars whispered that there was no such thing. You don’t ever disappear. You just change. You leave. You move on. But you never disappear. Even when you think you want to.

~ Amy Harmon

I have experienced deep despair, mental-ill health and attempt of suicide.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.

~ Rainbow Rowell

When man is finally able to see himself and the world around him with clear cognition, he finds a picture far more pleasant. Visible in unmistakable clarity and devastating detail is man’s failure to be what he might be and his misuse of his world. This revelation causes him to leap out in search of a way of life and system of values which will enable him to be more than he has been. He seeks a foundation of self-respect, which will have value system rooted in knowledge and cosmic reality where he expresses himself so that all others, all beings can continue to exist. His values now are of a different order from those at previous levels: They arise not from selfish interest but from the recognition of the magnificence of existence and the desire that it shall continue to be.

~ Clare W. Graves

We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.

~ Colleen Mccullough

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

~ Jamaica Kincaid