Self-awareness Quotes

"you are not punished for your anger, you are only punished by your anger"

- Buddha

"Kids raised from birth on to feel safe expressing their emotions, who feel their parents are on their side, aren’t perfect. They’re easier to parent, though, because they’re better at managing their emotions, and therefore their behavior. They’re more willing to accept our guidance."

- Laura Markham

""You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box.""

- Meghan Markle

"No matter where you go, there you are."

- Confucius

"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question."

- Harun Yahya

"There are no multiples of Allan. He's just Allan."

- Narrator

"I would never wear heels if my feet were shaped this way!"

- Barbie

"If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive."

- Audre Lorde

"To the heart in you, don’t be afraid to feel. To the sun in you, don’t be afraid to shine. To the love in you, don’t be afraid to heal. To the ocean in you, don’t be afraid to rage. To the silence in you, don’t be afraid to break."

- Najwa Zebian

"Once we figured out that we could not change each other, we became free to celebrate ourselves as we are."

- H. Dean Rutherford (in a letter to his wife on their 59th wedding anniversary)

"I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more."

- Candice Bergen

"Why do you look at the speck in of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?"

- Jesus

"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."

- Alan Alda

"It is important to express oneself…provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience."

- Berthe Morisot

"I paint for myself. I don’t know how to do anything else, anyway. Also, I have to earn my living, and occupy myself."

- Francis Bacon

"I am a normal person. I have the same life as any human being. When I finish playing, doing my work, I have my family, my friends, and I live like any other person."

- Lionel Messi

"Be true to yourself and ignore a lot of what's said"

- Kate Middleton

"None of us are perfect. We must stop holding our children to a higher standard of perfection than we can attain ourselves."

- Rebecca Eanes

"I hate the man in the mirror 'cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer."

- Tupac Shakur

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"

- Albert Einstein

"The surest test of discipline is its absence."

- Clara Barton

"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline."

- Barbara W. Tuchman

"People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life."

- Carrie Ann Moss

"You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot — it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive."

- Maya Angelou

"We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves."

- William Hazlitt

"Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to. It’s not for them."

"I’ve reached an age where my brain can go from a ‘You” Probably shouldn’t say that” to “What the heck, let’s just see what happens.”"

- Anonymous

"Just because you’re special, doesn’t mean you’re useful."

"No one is as dumb as all of us together."

"Not only is the kingdom of heaven within, but the kingdom of Hell is within as well – it’s your choice."