Self-awareness Quotes

"I can’t help but feel that I am in some way the architect of my own misery."

- Sylvia Plath

"Mental health problems don’t define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but you are not the rain."

- Matt Haig

"The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name."

- Sylvia Browne

"It’s a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers."

- Michael Che

"Memory is original events combined with every other time you’ve remembered that event. This is why therapy’s helpful."

- Becky Kennedy

"Get into what your kids are into. How miserable would it be to always be anti-popular stuff like ‘ughhhh you seriously like Taylor Swift?'"

- Joel Willis

"We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day."

- Brad Meltzer

"The one thing you’re most reluctant to tell. That’s where the comedy is."

- Mike Birbiglia

"If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert."

- Paulo Coelho

"It’s easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do."

- Mark Ruffalo

"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self."

- Marian Sandmaier

"I don't like work— no man does— but I like what is in the work— the chance to find yourself."

- Joseph Conrad

"We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy."

- Lorraine Toussaint

"Your energy is unique. Embrace it. Use it wisely. Make it count."

- Robin Sharma

"I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer."

- Anthony Bourdain

"I'm not a chef, and I'm not an expert at anything. I'm just a mom and a wife."

- Ree Drummond

"To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait."

- Marco Pierre White

"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."

- Edmund Burke

"I’m not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn’t bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation."

- William Clay Ford, Jr.

"When you understand that your self-worth is not determined by your net-worth, then you’ll have financial freedom."

- Suze Orman

"The horse is a mirror to your soul. And sometimes you might not like what you see in the mirror."

- Buck Brannaman

"You are not your thoughts; you are the observer of your thoughts."

"Your energy introduces you even before you speak."

"In solitude, the cowboy finds his truest self."

"Silence is the loyal companion of solitude."

"A solo ride is a journey inward."

"Solitude carves out the cowboy's road."

"A cowboy's heart beats calmly in isolation."

"What success is can’t be defined by what other people can do. It’s your success. You define it."