Self-awareness Quotes

"She is free in her wildness; she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. Time for her isn't something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water."

- Roman Payne

"It is a special, weird thing being a cheerleader. You need to want to yell and perform, dance, and wear a cute little costume. It’s a thing you’re kind of born with or without."

- Betsey Johnson

"Not every girl can be a cheerleader, it takes a special kind. Cheerleaders are full of life and a little bit out of their mind."

- Jennifer

"Journals contain ten categories of life patterns: longing; fear, mastery; (intentional) silences; key influences; hidden lessons; secret gifts; challenges; unfinished business; untapped potential. Each category corresponds to a way we engage or hold back in life."

- Alexandra Johnson

"Writing is my way of expressing – and thereby eliminating – all the various ways we can be wrong-headed."

- Zadie Smith

"I journal about anything and everything I can in my life – minutiae, dreams, important mailed papers, receipts, etc. There is literally nothing that I won’t put in my assorted journaling."

- Margot Olson

"Journaling isn’t about creating great works of literature, it’s about you and how life is impacting on you."

- Steve Day

"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write."

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."

- Joan Didion

"I guess in my diary I’m not afraid to be boring. It’s not my job to entertain anyone in my diary."

- David Sedaris

"My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible."

- Dawna Markova

"Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession."

- Alexandra Johnson

"We begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display."

- Julia Cameron

"If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"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

"When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it’s all part of making sense of who I am."

- Amy Tan

"Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession"

- Alexandra Johnson

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best"

- W. Somerset Maugham

"A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it justs blooms"

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”"

- Author Unknown

"A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes to his own; … This abnegation of his own opinion, and this implicit deference to the opinion of his forefathers, which are common to the English and American lawyer, this servitude of thought which he is obliged to profess, necessarily give him more timid habits and more conservative inclinations in England and America than in France."

- Alexis de Tocqueville

"Be careful the stories you're telling yourself about your current circumstances; a head full of negative thoughts has no space for positive ones."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss."

- Anthony Liccione

"It is extremely important to be able to make negative assertions. We must be able to say what is ‘not me’ in order to have a ‘me’. What we like has no meaning unless we know what we don’t like. Our yes has no meaning if we never say no. My chosen profession has no passion if ‘just anyone would do’. Our opinions and thoughts mean very little if there is nothing we disagree with."

- Henry Cloud

"The sun sets not on the world, but in us."

- Wallace Stevens

"An independent woman is not defined by her relationship status but by her character, achievements, and ambitions."

"A strong woman knows she can't control everything, but she can control her own reactions and choices."

"An independent woman knows that she is complete on her own and doesn't need someone else to make her whole."

"She is whole, not a half waiting for someone to complete her."

"Reflecting on the strength and love of my mother, I find my truest self."