Self-awareness Quotes

"Shame is a soul eating emotion."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual becomes."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"... anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it."

- William James

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

- Sigmund Freud

"We are conscious of ourselves because we are conscious of others; and in an analogous manner, we are conscious of others because in our relationship to ourselves we are the same as others in their relationship to us. I am aware of myself only to the extent that I am as another for myself."

- Lev Vygotsky

"Pride and self-hate belong inseparably together; they are two expressions of one process."

- Karen Horney

"...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable."

- Fritz Perls

"There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore, I must destroy you."

- Jacques Lacan

"I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming."

- Jacques Lacan

"The neurotic, as long as he must adhere to his illusions about himself, cannot recognize limitations, the search for glory goes into the unlimited. Because the main goal is the attainment of glory, he becomes uninterested in the process of learning, of doing, or of gaining step by step — indeed, tends to scorn it. He does not want to climb a mountain; he wants to be on the peak. Hence he loses the sense of what evolution or growth means, even though he may talk about it. Because, finally, the creation of the idealized self is possible only at the expense of truth about himself, its actualization requires further distortions of truth, imagination being a willing servant to this end. Thereby, to a greater or lesser extent, he loses in the process his interest in truth, and the sense for what is true or not true — a loss that, among others, accounts for his difficulty in distinguishing between genuine feelings, beliefs, strivings, and their artificial equivalents (unconscious pretenses) in himself and in others. The emphasis shifts from being to appearing."

- Karen Horney

"The person most in control is the person who can give up control."

- Fritz Perls

"I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think."

- Jacques Lacan

"What cannot be communicated to the [m]other cannot be communicated to the self."

- John Bowlby

"In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity."

- Erik H. Erikson

"What is most personal is most universal."

- Carl Rogers

"A person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits."

- Carl Rogers

"Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?"

- Carl Rogers

"I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful."

- Carl Rogers

"Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something to that someone/ to those people. May nothing that you do be done with any thought of them in mind. There is nothing that needs to be proven."

- C. JoyBell C.

""You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything.""

- Ali Krieger

""The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.""

- Steven Furtick

"Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself."

- Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"The individual becomes for himself what he is in himself through what he manifests for others."

"Good morning signifies that like sunrise, you should raise your inner awareness to become a better being. Have a great Saturday!"