Self-awareness Quotes

"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."

- Confucius

"When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self."

- Confucius

"The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live."

- Confucius

"To understand yourself is the key to wisdom."

- Confucius

"When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points."

- Confucius

"Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean."

- Confucius

"She remembered who she was and the game changed"

- Rumi

"If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go."

- Steve Maraboli

"We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don’t have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now."

- Gay Hendrix

"Don’t be afraid to let go of this acquired, invented identity; this false feeling of ‘I.’ That is like being afraid to let go of a headache. That is what the imaginary ‘I’ is—one great big headache."

- Vernon Howard

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

- Carl Jung

"Nature is a beautiful place to get lost and find yourself. A place which will never disappoint you and you will love it always. A place close to your heart where you can find peace. A place where you can feel lively and get to know a little more of you."

- Aksu

"As I began to love myself, I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is authenticity."

- Charlie Chaplin

"One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better."

- Blaise Pascal

"If you’re being ignored, that’s a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery."

- Lykke Li

"In the end you don’t so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are."

- Robert Brault

"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life."

- James A. Michener

"All this time I was finding myself, And I didn’t know I was lost."

- Avicci, Wake Me Up

"You’ve got to find yourself first. Everything else’ll follow."

- Charles de Lint

"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self."

- Benjamin Franklin

"To be curious about that which is not one’s concern while still in ignorance of oneself is absurd."

- Plato

"All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."

- James Thurber

"What you fear is inside yourself… The power to do great or terrible things."

- Liam Neeson

"It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die."

- S. I. Hayakawa

"The more you know who you are and what you want, the less you let things upset you"

- Stephanie Perkins

"Comparison is the thief of joy."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It's a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost... and for getting found. I'll take you there, you'd said. And I could say that I agreed."

- Lucy Christopher

"What's wrong with me? ... I might seem like the ideal student: homework always in early, every extra credit and extra curricular I can get my hands on, the good girl and the high achiever. But I realized something just now: it's not ambition, not entirely. It's fear. Because I don't know who I am when I'm not working, when I'm not focused on or totally consumed by a task. Who am I between the projects and the assignments, when there's nothing to do? I haven't found her yet and it scares me. Maybe that's why, for my senior capstone project this year, I decided to solve a murder."

- Holly Jackson

"If you don’t get lost, there’s a chance you may never be found."