Self-awareness Quotes

How can I be strong when I do not know my own mind? I am lost.""That's not true. You are not lost. I...

I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea...

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his ...

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to li...

For awakened human beings, there was no obligation—none, none, none at all—except this: to search fo...

But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always ...

Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap...

I'm deeper than the shit I'm in and I don't really give a damn.

Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we lo...

We're freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I'm a twenty-five-year-old freak and she's a twenty-one-y...

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselv...

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge...

Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and colle...

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves.

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, enc...

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to des...

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and soph...

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you ar...

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been t...

It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the major...

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your se...

Maybe from as early as when you're five or six, there's been a whisper going at the back of your hea...

You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lie...

I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to...

The Way to do is to be.

the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simpl...

Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to pu...

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it p...

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault o...

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.

Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull p...

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ...

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened

For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is...

My own sense is that the acquisition of self knowledge has been made difficult by the modern world. ...

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?...

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral a...

In judging our progress as individual we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's socia...

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious fe...

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for ...

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her moo...

In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began ...

Man is the question he asks about himself, before any question has been formulated. It is, therefore...

If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the w...

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed them...

I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good i...

But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like?Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? ...

A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-...

I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, gra...

The most important precept is to be aware of WHO WE ARE!“Who we are,” he said, underlining each word...

Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,and meditate to know if the world's true or lies,may do so. I...

I'd been so fascinated by the notion, that I'd forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I'd ...

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in ...

I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Eart...

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I ca...

Be your own self. Love what YOU love.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of our...

Everyone had learned that it was worth giving up privacy for the merest possibility of fame, and the...

To remember oneself and to relax the body is something we have to do constantly.

We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?

What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered wh...

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to car...

You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.

First of all I express sincerity. There's also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn ...

I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you w...

I've recovered my tenderness by long looking;I'm a Socrates of small fury.The waves bends with the f...

Self-contemplation is a curseThat makes an old confusion worse.

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: t...

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves t...

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never gu...

For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how man...

I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselv...

...some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but t...

Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.As if I were not puzzled at myself!

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.

One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, / And whether I come to my own ...

As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creat...

It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watche...

We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things...

No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.