Self-awareness Quotes

"Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health."

- Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy

"Part of my identity is saying no to things I don’t want to do… I check in with myself throughout the day and I say, ‘Do I really want to do this?’ and if the answer is no, then I don’t do it. And you shouldn’t either."

- Lady Gaga

"What I love about therapy is that they’ll tell you what your blind spots are. Although that’s uncomfortable and painful, it gives you something to work with."

- Pink

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

- Carl Jung

"The gentlest reminder: You might not need to read another self-help book, attend another training, or bookmark another Instagram post as much as you need to listen to, trust, and practice what you already know. What if the answer you’re looking for is actually within you already?"

- Lisa Olivera

"I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you."

- Lee J. Colan

""When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we’re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on — series polygamy — until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment.""

- Tom Robbins

""I didn’t lose you. You lost me. You’ll search for me inside of everyone you’re with and I won’t be found.""

- R.H. Sin

"Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have."

- Robert Holden

"You not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself thank you."

- Nayyirah Waheed

"You have no control over other people’s taste, so focus on staying true to your own."

- Tim Gunn

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life."

- Golda Meir

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?"

- Goldie Hawn

"People love to say, “You gotta fake it till you make it.” But this implies that the fake you is someone better than who you inherently are, and this is simply not the truth. Let me say this loud and clear: the person you imagine yourself to be in the very best and most powerful moments of your life, is the authentic you. And in truth, I imagine you’re probably much more amazing even than that."

- Richie Norton

"A confident woman may not be rich, but deep within, she is enriched with a better understanding of who she is."

- Gift Gugu Mona

"Accept who you are; and revel in it."

- Mitch Albom

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."

- Virginia Woolf

"You are not responsible for other people’s opinions, feelings, or perceptions of you. They own that, not you."

- Shane Parrish

"Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me."

- Anne Morrough Lindbergh

"There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself."

- Ruth Stout

"Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand."

- Banksy

"To travel is to take a journey into yourself."

- Danny Kaye

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."

- David Mitchell

"Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself."

- Katherine Sharp

"Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself."

- Harvey Fierstein

"Once you give them the power to tell you you’re great, you’ve also given them the power to tell you you’re unworthy. Once you start caring about people’s opinions of you, you give up control."

- Ronda Rousey

"If I don’t listen to the stories my mind is telling me, is there a problem right now?"

"Behind every great kid is a mom who is pretty sure she is screwing it up."