Self-awareness Quotes

"It’s not about being perfect. It’s not about where you get yourself in the end. There’s power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice."

- Michelle Obama

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness."

- Viktor E. Frankl

"The one who is truely enslaved is the one who is a slave of his desires."

- Imam Ibn al-Qayyim (RA)

"If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me."

- Mitski

"I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are."

- Jay-Z

"In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself."

- Post Malone

"You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave."

- Margaret Atwood

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

- Virginia Woolf

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"I can't perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it'll distract from the whole persona."

- MF Doom

"Just because you become a mother, it doesn’t mean you lose who you are."

- Beyoncé

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened."

- Anatole France

"I’m not superstitious … but I am a little stitious."

- Michael Scott

"I want to apologize. I’m not even confident on which end that came out of."

- Megan

"She gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something. I don’t know, I wasn’t really paying attention."

- Harry Dunne

"The greatness of animals is that they are just themselves."

- Alice Walker

"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."

- Bell Hooks

"It’s been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self-esteem. It’s the perfect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self-loathing."

- Gary Oldman

"These feelings, no matter how painful, are part of living. Today, we are alive—not anesthetized, not sedated, not passed out. Take control of your feelings and through action you can change. Today, as every day of sober living, we have a choice."

- Ann D. Clark

"Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves."

- Nathaniel Branden

"To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections."

- Sandra Bierig

"The challenge is not to be perfect—it is to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

"When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny better than you do."

- John O'Donohue

"Never react emotionally to criticism. Take time to objectively evaluate the criticism. Is it justified? If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"If you don’t look back at your car after you park it, you own the wrong car."

"The more a stalk of wheat grows, the more it bends; similarly, the more a scholar knows, the more humble he becomes."

"Whoever exposes himself to suspicion should not blame those who hold a bad opinion of him."

"The soul, if not occupied with obedience, will occupy you with disobedience."

"Envy is a waste of time and energy, a negative emotion that has no real value."

- Anonymous

"We are not in control of what happens around us but we remain in control of what happens inside us."