Self-awareness Quotes

"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You never heard of me all the weird shit I do and say"

- Then-Bus-8942

"Mothers have martyred themselves in their children’s names since the beginning of time. We have lived as if she who disappears the most, loves the most. We have been conditioned to prove our love by slowly ceasing to exist. What a terrible burden for children to bear—to know that they are the reason their mother stopped living. What a terrible burden for our daughters to bear—to know that if they choose to become mothers, this will be their fate, too. Because if we show them that being a martyr is the highest form of love, that is what they will become. They will feel obligated to love as well as their mothers loved, after all. They will believe they have permission to live only as fully as their mothers allowed themselves to live. If we keep passing down the legacy of martyrdom to our daughters, with whom does it end? Which woman ever gets to live? And when does the death sentence begin? At the wedding altar? In the delivery room? Whose delivery room—our children’s or our own? When we call martyrdom love we teach our children that when love begins, life ends. This is why Jung suggested: There is no greater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent."

- Glennon Doyle

"Well, as far as brains go, I got the lion's share. But, when it comes to brute strength... I'm afraid I'm at the shallow end of the gene pool."

- Scar

"You have forgotten who you are and so forgotten me."

- Mufasa

"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together."

- Ray Bradbury

"When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'"

- Steven Wright

"Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift."

- Liam Neeson

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."

- Sophocles

"It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time."

- Willie Nelson

"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."

- Helen Keller

"I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter."

- Oscar Wilde

"We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration."

- Alanis Morissette

"Sadness is also a kind of defence."

- Ivo Andric

"Your worst sin is that you've destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing"

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that."

- Kevin Bacon

"You’ve just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings."

- Chaka Khan

"I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something."

- Muhammad Iqbal

"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."

- Kahlil Gibran

"When you focus on someone’s disability you’ll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally."

- Yvonne Pierre

"Every person with disability is an individual"

- Itzhak Perlman

"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. … Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."

- Edmund Burke

"In the democratic vision, the freedom achieved by a democratic order is above all the freedom of self-determination in making collective and binding decisions: the self-determination of citizens entitled to participate as political equals in the making of the rules and laws under which they will live together as citizens."

- Robert Dahl

"It is unrealistic to expect people to see you as you see yourself."

- Epictetus

"Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?"

- Marcus Aurelius

"I'd like to be the ideal mother, but I'm too busy raising my kids."

"आपके विचार आपकी वास्तविकता को आकार देते हैं, इसलिए उन्हें जुड़े रखें।"

"पहले पड़ती थी बहुत सी बातों पर फर्क, अब किसी बात पर नहीं पड़ती।"

"The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves."