Self-awareness Quotes

"I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them."

- Mary J. Blige

"You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person."

- Hillary Rodham Clinton

"I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live."

- Françoise Sagan

"If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Journal writing is a voyage to the interior."

- Christina Baldwin

"Writing in a journal gives me a place to report, interpret, argue, reflect, save, question, predict, unload, praise, compare, cry, laugh, draw, paint, and remember."

- Luci Swindoll

"Journal what you love, what you hate, what’s in your head, what’s important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things in a concrete way that otherwise you might not see."

- Kay WalkingStick

"Journal writing gives us insights into who we are, who we were, and who we can become."

- Sandra Marinella

"A journal is your completely unaltered voice."

- Lucy Dacus

"Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself."

- Pat Conroy

"I don’t know what I think until I write it down."

- Joan Didion

"The pages afforded glimpses into my soul where I’d hidden it, behind masks of paper and ink."

- Rachel L. Schade

"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather—in many cases—offers an alternative to it."

- Susan Sontag

"Your Journal is like your best friend. You don’t have to pretend with it, you can be honest and write exactly how you feel."

- Bukola Ogunwale

"A breed apart from the diarists who write simply to collect the days or preserve impressions of foreign places are those who set out in their books to discover who they really are. These are generally very serious people, more in the way of pilgrims, with inward destinations, than mere travelers. Some of them are after the sight of God; others are out to realize their full ‘potential,’ spiritual and otherwise; and some of them are carrying burdens of suffering they are unsure they can shoulder—they want to use their diaries to test, and add to, their strength."

- Thomas Mallon

"I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies."

- Anne Frank

"I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say."

- Flannery O'Connor

"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear"

- Richard Bach

"Dear HR Pros: You are an employee. You are a human being."

- Laura Mazzullo

"I found a home in my own heart."

- Njau Kihia

"The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself."

- Thales

"I’m learning that ‘No’ is a complete sentence. And I am reminding myself that this isn’t a competition. It’s me following the trajectory of the life I was meant to lead."

- Amanda Gorman

"Normally when I look at stuff, I try to look at the good things. When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those."

- Jacob deGrom

"Never waste a minute thinking about anyone you dislike."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I just see myself as just an ordinary chick from Florida, not some beautiful woman."

- Jennifer Sky

"There’s a little witch in all of us."

- Aunt Jet Owens

"Journaling [...] can be the go-to way you use your mind, maintain daily awareness, and take responsibility for your life."

"Sometimes the only paper will listen to you."

"Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself"

"Never chase other people’s dreams. You’re unique and so are your aspirations."