Self Awareness Quotes

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

~ Abraham Verghese

I may not know what my heart truly holds, but who does? I think we're all mysteries, even to ourselves.

~ Carolyn Ives Gilman

Personal essay writing that incites the mind and instigates personal growth involves examination and re-examination, a process of noticing and reflecting upon what a person perceives. Essayistic writing is an osmotic process wherein a person intuitively absorbs information and ideas, allows inchoate thoughts to gestate in the unconscious mind, and then consciously places the emergent strands of language and logic into an orderly and expressive format.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Extreme anxiety, fear, exhaustion, and lack of other viable options are what cause a person to surrender everything. Desperation is also the raw material of drastic change. Crisis spurs critical, dramatic shifts in a person’s psyche. Only a person who is willing to lose everything will transform himself or herself. Only by moving outside our comfort zone of the past – letting go of a former being – will a person expand their state of conscious awareness. Now that I am desperate, I am dangerous. I am also ripe for transformation.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Personal mastery begins by increasing our awareness about who we truly are, our strengths, limitations... Personal mastery can be achieved not only by being aware but also by controlling what is happening inside and around ourselves...

~ Assegid Habtewold

Many of the confusions, conflicts, and disarrays that are rampant in today’s organizations, communities, and nations could have been avoided if leaders have solid self-awareness...

~ Assegid Habtewold

Love sparkles out from those giving and receiving it. It can be seen and felt. Love causes flowers to bloom, providing beauty. it causes hearts to bloom, providing the beauty which is instilled within me and you. Love always causes more love to grow.

~ Janet G Nestor

All things are a living message from creation to mankind; all things, even the smallest blade of grass or the smallest insect. Each carries its own message about life and has an understanding of its role and what it is to accomplish during its lifetime.

~ Janet G Nestor

Love sparkles and shines out from those giving and receiving it. It can be seen and felt. Love causes flowers to bloom providing beauty. It causes hearts to bloom, providing the beauty that is instilled within me and you.

~ Janet G. Nestor

Redefine Yourself will help you overcome the obstacles that have plagued your life. You will incorporate new adaptive strategies that will not only change your life, but also positively impact those people around you. You will truly redefine yourself and achieve the happiness you’ve always wanted. You might just achieve that long list of other wants too.

~ Michael Moody

It happened to me just this year with a beautiful boy I started hanging out with. Call me a hormonal teenager if you want, but evidently I haven’t grown out of this experience. His name, his voice, his face, his laugh - anything was enough to make my heart start beating faster. It’s the spark.

~ Stephen Lovegrove

Change isn't always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance – usually about ourselves – and we become better people for it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, we are also living the stories we planted - knowingly or unknowingly - in ourselves. We live the stories that either give our lives meaning, or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change or lives.

~ Ben Okri

May your sacred star guide you every day of the New Year.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Speak kindly to with adult women as you would to your mother.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your heart is who you are, all else follows. Guard your heart, Thomas. Guard your heart.

~ Liam Perrin

You’ll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

My scars teach me that I am stronger than what caused them.

~ Manal Al-Sharif

What if each time you experienced an emotion, you acknowledged it, accepted it, and became curious about its message for you (instead of trying to make it go away or make it last longer)? Imagine how this could change your life. Imagine how heard, loved, and honoured you would feel if you really listened to yourself.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Hope is my strength. My strength is my weapon. And my Love, nurtures them both.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

True vehement love is at the opposite side of sanity.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Never spend more time worrying about somebody or some situation (that plays no significant role in your life) more than you do about yourself.

~ Carlos Wallace

A person imbued with compassion and self-understanding can readily love oneself and exhibit endless sympathy for all people. A person who is unkind to their self can never transcend their corrupt barriers much less run into the world with open arms enthusiastically embracing humankind and all of nature with uninhibited friendliness and goodwill.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Be real. Be authentic. Be yourself, whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away, while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

I know who I am.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us – a wall that keeps love out.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Being passive is not the same as being peaceful. If you aren't doing what you know, in your heart, you want to do, you are NOT going with the flow. You are going against the flow. Your reactions, emotions, desires, and talents are all part of the flow of life. Ignoring them is passive resistance. Let yourself go.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Heavenly onwards!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest discovery is self-discovery.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Euphoria Godsent

The happiness you seek can be found within yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Where would I be had I not believed I was incompetent?

~ Ilona Mialik

We assure you there is no separateness between you and God/Goddess/The All That Is other than your perception.

~ Réné Gaudette

The more you've struggled to heal and love yourself, the more inspiring your story will be to others when you come out the other side full of triumph, awareness, and honour. Don't give up. Your struggle today is the source of your wisdom tomorrow.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

You are not who you think you are. You are not your fears, your thoughts, or your body. You are not your insecurities, your career, or your memories. You're not what you're criticized for and you're not what you're praised for. You are a boundless wealth of potential. You are everything that's ever been. Don't sell yourself short. Every sunset, every mountain, every river, every passionate crowd, every concert, every drop of rain - that's you. So go find yourself. Go find your strength, find your beauty, find your purpose. Stop crafting your mask. Stop hiding. Stop lying to yourself and letting people lie to you. You're not lacking in anything except awareness. Everything you've ever wanted is already there, awaiting your attention, awaiting your time.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

I am happy not because I am without pain, but because I know I am not that pain.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

You are nature. You are already perfect, peaceful, and powerful. You don’t need to become anything. You simply need to remember yourself.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Taking care of yourself isn’t about trying to become perfect. It’s about realizing and honouring,in every moment, thatyou already are.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Who will you love if not yourself? Other people? How can you love someone for anything but their raw, naked humanity? How can you say you love someone if it is not for their flaws and quirks, snorts and hurts, triggers and tears? Anything else is not love. It is idealization. And, as long as you do it to yourself, you will do it to everyone. You will not love anyone or anything until those eyes in the mirror soften up and embrace the beauty that is already within.

~ Vironika Tugaleva