To understand is to forgive even oneself.
~ Alexander Chase
Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
~ Lao Tzu
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards becoming a champion.
~ Billie Jean King
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
~ Plato
The deeper interior you have the more you have in your library.
~ Jacqueline Bisset
Follow your interests get the best available education and training set your sights high be persistent be flexible keep your options open accept help when offered and be prepared to help others.
~ Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
~ Queen Elizabeth Ii
As it turns out social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
~ Susan Faludi
Saying yes to yourself means acknowledging what you have that's good and working on the things that aren't.
~ Patricia Fripp
There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.
~ Karen Horney
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
~ Madeleine L'engle
As simple as it sounds we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices by making the most of the talents we've been given.
~ Mary Lou Retton
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
~ Susan Sontag
You must love and care for yourself because that's when the best comes out.
~ Tina Turner
Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.
~ Golda Meir
Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.
~ Adrienne Rich
Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.
~ Spanish Proverb
We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then.
~ Agatha Christie
Until we see what we are we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
~ Charlotte P. Gilman
When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live.
~ Norvin G. Mcgranahan
A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.
~ Thomas À Kempis
If you do not ask yourself what it is you know you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.
~ Saint Bartholomew
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
~ Thomas Mann
Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.
~ Paule Marshall
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
~ Georges Gurdjieff
Self-searching is the means by which we bring new vision action and grace to bear upon the dark and negative side of our natures. With it comes the development of that kind of humility that makes it possible for us to receive God's help. ... We find that bit by bit we can discard the old life-the one that did not work-for a new life that can and does work under conditions whatever.
~ Anonymous
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
~ Thales
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
~ Pearl Bailey
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.
~ Josh Billings
Long ago I understood that it wasn't merely my being a woman that was preventing my being welcomed into the world of what I long thought of as my peers. It was that I had succeeded in an undertaking few men have even attempted: I have become myself.
~ Alice Koller
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
~ Jean De La Fontaine
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
~ Carol Shields
No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.
~ Joseph Conrad
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
~ Demosthenes
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
~ Wilma Rudolph
One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
~ G. K. Chesterton
You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.
~ Beryl Markham
Learn what you are and be such.
~ Pindar
Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful if you have that but learn to love what you have.
~ Anita Baker
