Self-awareness Quotes

"I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."

- Steve Jobs

"If we read merely to stock our head with ideas, to feel superior to others, or to appear learned, then our reading is useless and vain."

- J. Oswald Sanders

"You are what you read."

- Alex Wieckowski

"If you’re overthinking, write. If you’re underthinking, read."

- Alex Wieckowski

"I'm a pretty nice dude. I have fun, and people take it the wrong way."

- Tyler, The Creator

"You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'"

- Christopher Meloni

"I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away."

- Heath Ledger

"I make bad decisions frequently. They're fun."

- SZA

"Sometimes asking for help is the most meaningful example of self-reliance."

- From the poem “Sometimes” by Cory Booker

"You are master of the moments of your life"

- Paramahansa Yogananda

"I never knew I liked to be outside so much. I never knew I liked lochs and views and that, but I could seriously handle living in a cottage by the side of somewhere like this."

- Jenn Fagan

"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul."

- John Muir

"You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, and anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a negative person. It makes you human."

- Lori Deschene

"When we are afraid of someone or something, it is because we do not feel that particular person or thing is a part of us. When we have established conscious oneness with the absolute, with the infinite vast, then everything there is a part of us. And how can we be afraid of ourselves?"

- Sri Chinmoy

"Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."

- Thomas Hobbes

"A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life."

- Hugh Sidey

"Isaac Asimov: “You’ve got to learn to laugh at yourself. If you don’t, someone else will do it for you, and you won’t enjoy it nearly as much.”"

- Isaac Asimov

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

- Viktor E. Frankl

"My therapist keeps telling me to stop comparing myself to other people – that life’s not a competition. Which, to be fair, is exactly what I’d say to someone I was trying to beat, too."

- Emily Murnane

"When I was diagnosed, my doctor said, ‘I don't want you to think you can't do anything that you don't want to do in this life.' MS is part of me, but it's not who I am."

- Jamie-Lynn Sigler

"The mountains have rules. They are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul."

- Walter Bonatti

"I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die."

- John Marsden

"Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself."

- Joan Bauer

"Your greatest opponent is the one in the reflection of the ball"

"I can easily forget that I’m in control of my life and return to feeling like a victim of my chronic pain. I may start asking myself again why this has happened to me, what I did to deserve this, etc. However, one of the gifts of pain recovery has been freedom from victim-thinking. This comes about over time, but it does come."

- Unknown

"How you think is as important as as what you think."

"You are not what you think you are, You are not what others think you are, You are what you think others think you are."

"Your problem isn't the problem. Your reaction is the problem."

"The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts."

"My life is so much more interesting inside my head."

- Unknown