Self-awareness Quotes

"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."

- Rita Mae Brown

"You're not your mistakes; they are what you did, not who you are."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"There is you and you. This is a relationship. This is the most important relationship."

- Nayyirah Waheed

"And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?"

- Rumi

"As we lose ourselves in the service of others we discover our own lives and our own happiness."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

""No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.""

- Erma Bombeck

""There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.""

- Erma Bombeck

"Know yourself. Never forget where you came from, and reach back to help someone else come forward too."

- Alpha Alexander

"Home is where my habits have a habitat."

- Fiona Apple

"When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters."

- Tony Stewart

"Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth."

- Malcolm X

"A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself."

- Malcolm X

"I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir!"

- Malcolm X

"I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else’s control. I feel that what I’m thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir!"

- Malcolm X

"Your problem is you’re too busy holding on to your unworthiness."

- Ram Dass

"Spirituality is about men and women declaring their wholeness."

- Carol Carnes

"Most people believe they are a victim of someone or some circumstance. Being a victim is a perception of powerlessness and is a lie we tell ourselves."

- Carol Carnes

"What in you needs to get moving? What thought, belief or feeling has you stuck?"

- Carol Carnes

"The first step to becoming conscious is noticing what you add after the phrase, I AM."

- Carol Carnes

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it."

- Eckhart Tolle

"The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal."

- Robin Sharma

"I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners."

- Jimmy Carter

"At some point, we all have to choose, between what the world wants you to be, and who you are."

- Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow

"The measure of a person, of a hero... is how well they succeed at being who they are."

- Frigga

"I can’t control their fear, only my own."

- Wanda Maximoff

"The way you speak to yourself matters."

"My healing journey is unique, and I honor my own pace."

"Every one of your 75 years has made you the amazing person you are today."

"Deep soul searching is required for finding your true north."

"Whatever it is that stirs your soul, listen to that. Everything else is just noise."