Self-awareness Quotes

"I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly."

- Joy Fielding

"Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation."

- Epictetus

"No man is hurt but by himself."

- Diogenes

"In short, you must remember this—that if you hold anything dear outside of your own reasoned choice, you will have destroyed your capacity for choice."

- Epictetus

"He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at."

- Epictetus

"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him."

- Epictetus

"Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself."

- Epictetus

"Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves."

- Epictetus

"To accuse others for one’s own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete."

- Epictetus

"If you make your internal life a priority, then everything else you need on the outside will be given to you, and it will be extremely clear what the next step is."

- Gabrielle Bernstein

"I'm going to be gone one day, and I have to accept that tomorrow isn't promised. Am I OK with how I'm living today? It's the only thing I can help. If I didn't have another one, what have I done with all my todays? Am I doing a good job?"

- Hayley Williams

"Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"IF YOU ARE DISTRESSED BY ANYTHING EXTERNAL, THE PAIN IS NOT DUE TO THE THING ITSELF, BUT TO YOUR ESTIMATE OF IT; AND THIS YOU HAVE THE POWER TO REVOKE AT ANY MOMENT."

- Marcus Aurelius

"OUR LIFE IS WHAT OUR THOUGHTS MAKE IT."

- Marcus Aurelius

"IF SOMEONE IS ABLE TO SHOW ME THAT WHAT I THINK OR DO IS NOT RIGHT, I WILL HAPPILY CHANGE, FOR I SEEK THE TRUTH, BY WHICH NO ONE WAS EVER TRULY HARMED. IT IS THE PERSON WHO CONTINUES IN HIS SELF-DECEPTION AND IGNORANCE WHO IS HARMED."

- Marcus Aurelius

"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

"HOW MUCH MORE GRIEVOUS ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANGER THAN THE CAUSES OF IT."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold."

- Thomas Jefferson

"I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it."

- Rodney Dangerfield

"One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor."

- George Carlin

"I used to jog, but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass."

- David Lee Roth

"I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up."

- Dean Martin

"Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another."

- Jesse Ball

"I am a drinker with a writing problem."

- Brendan Behan

"Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth."

- George Burns

"I’ve never been drunk, but often I’ve been overserved."

- George Gobel

"I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe."

- Hunter S. Thompson

"Don't let the monster out of the cage"

"You don’t crave a drink, you want a black out."