Self-awareness Quotes

"So, today, I will not make promises to do better, to live healthier, or to save money. These are natural and valid attempts to regulate a future that is impossible to know. But, I will abandon the ritual of unwrapping a fresh package of new resolutions which feel individual in nature. They perpetuate a myth of self-sufficiency. Instead, I wish to live daringly in community and to accept the challenges our collective moment has to offer. I won’t look away in an attempt to live an anxiety-free life."

- Major Jackson

"There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying."

- Sarah Dessen

"Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."

- M. Scott Peck

"If one has no time, one has also lost oneself."

- Marc Wittmann

"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow. Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home."

- Maia Kobabe

"Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already."

- Pema Chodron

"It’s not stress that kills us; it is our reaction to it."

- Hans Selye

"Monsters will always exist. There’s one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other."

- Jacqueline Novogratz

"Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone, and solitude expresses the glory of being alone."

- Paul Tillich

"I was the mystery of an anatomy, a question asked but not answered."

- Lee Mokobe

"There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind—you are the one who hears it."

- Michael A. Singer

"Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts."

- Allan Lokos

"There was a point I was embarrassed at how much thought I put into weed. But I’ve embraced it."

- Seth Rogen

"I’ve always smoked while I’m working. This happens every night, whether the cameras are on or off. This is the lifestyle that people have to accept from me."

- 2Chainz

"He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection."

- Confucius

"I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone."

- Meg Cabot

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

- Oscar Wilde

"People don’t look at themselves honestly. They don’t look at themselves and point the finger; it’s always the other guy’s fault. You should change yourself. Look at yourself."

- Michael Jackson

"We try so hard to block out negative or dark thoughts, but sometimes embracing your demons is the most vitalizing thing you can do."

- Oliver Sykes

"It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it."

- Sylvia Plath

"Make sure your worst enemy is not living between your ears."

- Laird Hamilton

"I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?"

- Michael Jackson

""Beauty isn't about being perfect; it’s about being real.""

""True beauty never asks for attention.""

""Embrace your reflection; it tells your story.""

""There is nothing more beautiful than embracing the real you.""

""Your unique essence is your most beautiful gift.""

"To align your life with your values is to find your true path."

- Anonymous

"A broken heart is a journey of self-discovery in disguise."

"Every heartbreak leads us closer to our true self."