Self-awareness Quotes

"Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices."

- Knute Rockne

"When you connect with your body and embrace its messages, you will discover the power of self-love."

- Phillip Shepherd

"No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance."

- Robert Holden

"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better."

- Frida Kahlo

"But, Grandmother Willow, what is my path? How am I ever going to find it?"

- Pocahontas

"Learn to pursue what you need to practice, not just what you think you should practice."

- Douglas Baldwin

"For people to judge me, I understand. There's nothing I can do."

- Alex Cora

"The world you see outside is a reflection of who you are inside."

- Cory Booker

"I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!"

- Charles Bukowski

"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."

- Douglas Coupland

"If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company."

- Jean-Paul Sartre

"being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right."

- Charles Bukowski

"Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way."

- Janet Fitch

"By all means use sometimes to be alone, Salute thyself; see what the soul doth wear."

- George Herbert

"If you are alone, you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion, you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct, and if you have more than one companion, you will fall more deeply into the same plight."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."

- Charles Darwin

"The best mirror is a true friend."

- George Herbert

"If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am."

- Cyril Cusack

"Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle."

- Eric Zorn

"Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty."

- John Selden

"Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"When I talk about my trauma I am not asking you to carry it or relieve me from it"

- Blythe Baird

"You do have a story; it lies articulate and waiting to be written behind your silence and your suffering."

- Anne Rice

"Your work is to discover who you are and then with all your heart give your light to the world."

- Jennifer Williamson

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself."

- Richard Bach

"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking."

- Charles Lamb

"New Year, new me? More like New Year, same me—but with better snacks."

"As clay breaks open to release the sculpture long concealed within, so now my deathless Self."

"I'm not a morning person. Or an afternoon person. Or an evening person."

"I'm not a procrastinator, I'm just extremely productive at unimportant things."