Self-awareness Quotes

"It’s okay to feel all of the stuff you’re feeling. You’re just becoming human again. You’re not doing life wrong; you’re doing it right. If there’s any secret you’re missing, it’s that doing it right is just really hard. Feeling all your feelings is hard, but that’s what they’re for. Feelings are for feeling. All of them. Even the hard ones. The secret is that you’re doing it right and that doing it right hurts sometimes."

- Glennon Doyle

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else"

- Margaret Mead

"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it"

- Charles Swindoll

"The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can’t be your parent’s definition, the media’s definition, or your neighbor’s definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you."

- RuPaul

"Control what you can control, your mind and attitude."

- Cancer survivor

"We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That’s okay."

- Laverne Cox

"My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you."

- Audre Lorde

"We are all a mosaic of possibility, made up of both light and shadow."

- Chaz Bono

"There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own."

- Larry Kramer

"I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF."

- David Levithan

"If I was gay, I wouldn't need an asterisk beside my name. I could stop worrying if the girl I like will bounce when she finds out I also like dick. I could have a coming-out party without people thinking I just want attention. I wouldn't have to explain that I fall in love with minds, not genders or body parts. People wouldn't say I'm 'just a slut' or 'faking it' or 'undecided' or 'confused.' I'm not confused. I don't categorize people by who I'm allowed to like and who I'm allowed to love. Love doesn't fit into boxes like that. It's blurry, slippery, quantum. It's only limited by our perceptions and before we slap a label on it and cram it into some category, everything is possible."

- Leah Raeder

"You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realised how seldom they do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."

- Buddha

"Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another."

- Buddha

"I will not look at another’s bowl intent on finding a fault: a training to be observed."

- Buddha

"I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles."

- Laurie Halse Anderson

"Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don’t lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier."

- Sabaa Tahir

"Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and be proud of what you feel."

- Demi Lovato

"And I said to my body, softy: I want to be your friend. It took a long breath, and replied: I have been waiting my whole life for this."

- Nayyirah Waheed

"The words “I am” are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you’re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you."

- A.L. Kitselman

"we take the time to allow ourselves the privilege of thinking"

- Narcotics Anonymous

"You should seek approval from yourself."

- Ichiro Suzuki

"There’s no better place to find yourself than sitting by a waterfall and listening to its music."

- Roland R. Kemler

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

- Virginia Woolf

"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are."

- Anne Lamott

"Remember: This is what you are going through, _not_ who you are."

"Talk to yourself like you would your best friend—would you allow yourself to say these things to me?"

"Don’t let your struggle become your identity. After all, you are so much more than just your illness."

"Just because you have a mental illness, it doesn't mean that you are that illness. You're still a person – just like everybody else."

"I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was."

- Unknown