Self Awareness Quotes

Man need discomfort for awaken.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

This was what Dennis had been doing lately: granting everyone permission to feel the way they were going to feel regardless. It was the books. Dennis’s relationship to his own feelings had become tender, curatorial. Dismantling. Entomological. Mave couldn’t be like that. She treated her emotional life the way she treated her car: She let it go, let it tough it out. To friends she said things like “I know you’re thinking this looks like a ’79, but it’s really an ’87.” She finally didn’t care to understand all that much about her emotional life; she just went ahead and did it. The point, she thought, was to attend the meager theater of it, quietly, and not stand up in the middle and shout, “Oh, my God, you can see the crew backstage!” There was a point at which the study of something became a frightening and naive thing.

~ Lorrie Moore

The great thing about falling apart, is that you get to decide how to put yourself back together. Make good choices.

~ Stacie Hammond

Denial of one's need for others is the most common type of defense against bonding. If people come from a situation, whether growing up or later in life, where good, safe relationships were not available to them, they learn to deny that they even want them. Why want what you can't have? They slowly get rid of their awareness of the need.

~ Henry Cloud

Do not seek to rule any man other than yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am a great lover.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual's exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others - they sustain their own positive self-view, relatively, by maintaining a negative view of others.

~ Dave Mearns

Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.

~ Leonardo Donofrio

My heart only knows love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

And that was it. That was the moment when everything started to shift. What do you want?

~ Stacie Hammond

Do you know yourself?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you are loved, that is all you need.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other.

~ Charlie Jane Anders

Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose.

~ Michael R. French

Those who seek to listen to their own inner voice forget to listen to the judgment of others.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

If you can't be liked being kind, then be hated being cruel.

~ Joshua Teya

not having a space you can call your own is dangerous. Everyone needs a sanctuary.

~ Marie Kondō

I desperate desire to read the Holy Scriptures is spirituality of the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everyone loses their class when they travel through hell, but only a few will regain it if they remain humble and accept the part they played in their own misery.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A bookshelf is a biography written by others.

~ Kat Lehmann

Richard Wright and his Negro intellectual colleagues never realized the plain truth that no one in the United States understood the revolutionary potential of the Negro better than the Negro's white radical allies. They understood it instinctively, and revolutionary theory had little to do with it. What Wright could not see was that what the Negro's allies feared most of all was that this sleeping, dream-walking black giant might wake up and direct the revolution all by himself, relegating his white allies to a humiliating second-class status. The negro's allies were not about to tell the Negro anything that might place him on the path to greater power and independence in the revolutionary movement than they themselves had. The rules of the power game meant that unless the American Negro taught himself the profound implications of his own revolutionary significance in America, it would never be taught to him by anybody else. Unless the Negro intellectuals understood that in pursuit of this self-understanding, they would have to make their own rules, by and for themselves, nationalism would forever remain--as it was for Wright-- a bewildering and vexing question.

~ Harold Cruse

My sufficiency is in the sufficiency of Jesus Christ.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How silly of us to think we can hide from God. How insane of us to think our thoughts are private, don’t you know that nothing is hidden? And what is it that you are hiding from anyway, your light, the love that you are? Are you afraid of remembering that you are a Child of God? That you are whole and holy, what a beautiful golden being of Light you are my child. There is nothing you see in this world that is as beautiful and brilliant as you, the most beautiful sunset, or sunrise is nothing in comparison to you. I have one thought and that is for you to remember who you are, where you are and how much you are LOVED. -God

~ Sharon Kay Casey

All that we see around us is not what it appears…As is the second coming not what we thought it would be. It is the knowledge that the spirit of God lives in all things and all things are joined together in the light of Love who is God. Thus accepting the truth of who you are

~ Sharon Kay Casey

Ordinary life is fascinating when viewed with extraordinary perspective.

~ Angela Howell

You should not seek forgiveness after an unkind act. The act was done on purpose. You must first understand why the act occurred and then move forward.

~ Lloyd A. Green

Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The more things you have in common with the normal population the more you are not being yourself.

~ Ray Mancini

The feeling of 'turning into your dad' is nothing compared to the realisation that your son is turning into you.

~ Andy Graham

I saw for the first time that I could stop giving people the power to make me feel disrespected. In my anger I began to see the absurdity of allowing this boy to shame me.

~ Aspen Matis

Stop what you are doing. Go outside and breathe. The world will not end if you take ten minutes for yourself.

~ Fawn Germer

Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills, including attention, focus, stress management, impulse control, and self-awareness.

~ Kelly Mcgonigal

I don't know why I resented it so intensely to have them think of me as something newly minted in their private treasury, but it was-I am certain-echoes of that idea that had been sounding in the chambers of my mind from the time we had arrived in Chicago. I wanted to get up and show everyone what a fool he was, to shout at him: I'm a human being, a person - with parents and memories and a history - and I was before you ever wheeled me into that operating room!

~ Daniel Keyes

You will not really know where you stand until you have been tested.

~ Sandra M. Michelle

The road to empowerment starts from self-awareness

~ Kazeem Olalekan

You will find what you seek.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Being a good communicator Patch, begins with listening, and listening to yourself first.

~ Michele Jennae

I stared at the stop sign and even though I was only five I thought, I will remember that stop sign for the rest of my life. The dents and the bumps, the colors and the shape, the three-fingered, black scuff and long silver scrape - even the dirty gray sky behind it. Days will go by and I will grow old but from time to time the image of this stop sign will come to my mind and I will think about it and remember what I was thinking at this exact time. I even remember thinking that I was awfully young to have such a profound thought and premonition but there it was.

~ April Adams

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors... For from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.

~ Lawrence Durrell