Self-awareness Quotes

"Part of the problem with America is that letting go of emotions is viewed as a weakness, but it's my strength. That enabled me to write my songs."

- Melanie Martinez

"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."

- Thornton Wilder

"Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle."

- Theodore Zeldin

"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."

- Lewis Carroll

"Because we are all a puzzle."

- Kate Winslet

"Man is a puzzle-solving animal."

- Ronald A Knox

"All he really understood, he thought, was himself and the rest of the universe. Neither anything like completely, of course, but both well enough to know that what remained to be discovered would make sense; it would fit in, it could all be gradually and patiently fitted together a bit at a time, like an infinite jigsaw puzzle."

- Iain Banks

"Even in the far future, never forget the you of right now Wherever you are right now, you’re just taking a break"

- BTS

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. ... No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others"

- Martha Graham

"Testing oneself is best when done alone."

- Jimmy Carter

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

- Rumi

"One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself."

- Dwayne Johnson

"We are cups constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

- Ray Bradbury

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes."

- Sally Field

"We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future."

- Wayne Cordeiro

"I'm doing this for me. If I don't become as successful as you all think I would be or should be and you think it tarnishes my career, then that's your own opinion. I'm doing this because I want to come back and I enjoy being in the pool and I enjoy being in the sport of swimming."

- Michael Phelps

"Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question."

- Willard Scott

"Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure."

- Roy T. Bennett

"I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me."

- Anaïs Nin

"Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?"

- Charles Bukowski

"What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me."

- Helen Keller

"Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings & emotions."

- Will Smith

"The way I drive, the way I handle a car, is an expression of my inner feelings."

- Lewis Hamilton

"The cars we drive say a lot about us."

- Alexandra Paul

"When I see somebody in a Prius, sure, you drive a Prius and you get good gas mileage, but you probably feel like you drive a Prius."

- Theo Von

"The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it."

- Enzo Ferrari

"Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions."

- Jane Austen

"Every car you see is in some way an extension of the people who drive them."

- Sam Witwicky (Transformers)

"I have to admit I’m a bit of a car enthusiast. It’s almost a sickness."

- Rick Riordan

"Dance enables you to find yourself and yourself at the same time."

- Unknown