Self-awareness Quotes

"Anyone can have a good day. The question is, what do you do on a bad day? That’s when you’re being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day."

- Arthur Golden

"People make mistakes/Holding to their own/thinking they're alone"

- Stephen Sondheim

"Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Now I know: I’m alone. I and my freedom that I don’t know how to use. Great responsibility of solitude. Whoever isn’t lost doesn’t know freedom and love it. As for me, I own up to my solitude and that sometimes falls into ecstasy as before fireworks. I am alone and must live a certain intimate glory that in solitude can become pain. And the pain, silence. I keep its name secret. I need secrets in order to live."

- Clarice Lispector

"Solitude is where one discovers one’s true self."

- Joseph Campbell

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Know thyself."

- Socrates

"You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness."

- Brené Brown

"Perfectionism is a self-destructive and addictive belief system."

- Brené Brown

"Healthy striving is self-focused: ‘How can I improve?’ Perfectionism is other-focused: ‘What will they think?’"

- Brené Brown

"Perfectionism is not a way to avoid shame. Perfectionism is a form of shame."

- Brené Brown

"Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame."

- Brené Brown

"Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of authenticity and worthiness."

- Brené Brown

"Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives as we are, not as we think we should be."

- Brené Brown

"I define authenticity as the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are."

- Brené Brown

"When we shut ourselves off from vulnerability, we distance ourselves from the experiences that bring purpose and meaning to our lives."

- Brené Brown

"Stop walking through the world looking for confirmation that you don’t belong. You will always find it because you’ve made that your mission."

- Brené Brown

"True belonging is not passive. It’s not the belonging that comes with just joining a group. It’s not fitting in or pretending or selling out because it’s safer. It’s a practice that requires us to be vulnerable, get uncomfortable, and learn how to be present with people without sacrificing who we are."

- Brené Brown

"Our unexpressed ideas, opinions, and contributions don’t just go away. They are likely to fester and eat away at our worthiness."

- Brené Brown

"My weakness is that I care too much."

- Papa Roach

"It’s been a long time since I’ve been me."

- Fernando Pessoa

"A #loveselfie isn't a picture or a status update. It's an attitude of embracing, accepting, and valuing yourself, exactly as you are in each moment. It's being one hundred percent present with yourself. Try it."

- Amy Leigh Mercree

"My favorite company is my own. I feel the most me when I'm by myself."

"Spending time alone gives you the space to find yourself."

"Whoever hates alone time isn't spending theirs right."

"I'm the kind of person who needs to live alone."

"There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely."

"Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself."

"In solitude, I found my truest self."

"Solitude isn’t emptiness; it’s the fullness of being."