Self-awareness Quotes

"Don't worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself."

- Jason Evert

"When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence."

- Tom Robbins

"While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek."

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

- Carl Jung

"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."

- St. Augustine

"Go find yourself first so you can also find me."

- Rumi

"One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self; of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."

- Epictetus

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."

- Lao Tzu

"Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be."

- Michael Bassey

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

- Socrates

"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread."

- Richard Wright

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"Finding oneself and one’s path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow."

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

"It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too."

- H.W. Shaw

"Not all who wander are lost."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."

- Clifton Fadiman

"Each man’s life represents a road toward himself."

- Herman Hesse

"I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of."

- Michel de Montaigne

"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."

- Jerry Gillies

"Find yourself first-like yourself first-love yourself FIRST & friendship & love will naturally find YOU."

- Mandy Hale

"You’ve got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself."

- D. H. Lawrence

"Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it."

- The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

"I abandoned my disguise and became myself, free from fear or weakness or lust."

- Watchmen

"Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Finding yourself is an enlightening experience. You become self-sufficient and do things for others without expectations of something in return. You are no longer needy and become utterly grateful for all the things people have done for you in the past."

- James Seaton

"Don’t worry about finding your soulmate. Find yourself."

- Jason Evert

"Finding yourself is a time of harmony because you develop that philosophy or belief system that will carry you throughout the rest of your life. When you love yourself, and who you are, you will savor and enjoy both life’s pain and pleasures."

- James Seaton

"Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery."

- Matthew Arnold