Tag: selfawareness

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― C.G. Jung

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.”
― Jodi Picoult

“But you can’t get away from yourself. You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in your head.”
― Jay Asher

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“you can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I think….you still have no idea. The effect you can have.”
― Suzanne Collins

“Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“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

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
― André Malraux

“I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
― Jim Morrison

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
― Dolly Parton

“You’ve always been what you are. That’s not new. What you’ll get used to is knowing it.”
― Cassandra Clare

“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.”
― Janis Joplin

“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”
― Jane Austen

“I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.”
― Leigh Bardugo

“Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;
For I am like the Moon,
you will see me with new face everyday.”
― Rumi

“You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”
― John Lennon

“It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
― Abraham Harold Maslow

“Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“I mean, I feel secure in my masculinity, too. Being secure in your masculinity isn’t the same as being straight.”
― Becky Albertalli

“Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.”
― Michael A. Singer

“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
― David Sedaris

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
― Socrates

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“My friend…care for your psyche…know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves” -Socrates”
― Socrates

“We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.”
― Eric Micha’el Leventhal

“I think that’s the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.”
― Steve Toltz

“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.”
― Theodor W. Adorno

“Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.”
― Amit Ray

“It is in the healing of self-blame and judgement, that the self is liberated from the constraints of binding emotions…And you come to remember your true authentic self.”
― Wendy E. Slater

“At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.”
― Albert Camus

“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.”
― Amit Ray

“It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.”
― Aisha Mirza

“At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.”
― Amit Ray

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott

“Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.”
― Amit Ray

“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
― Samuel Beckett

“I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”
― Douglas Adams

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”
― Cheryl Strayed

“Purpose gives perspective to your pain and powers you through it. Without it, your pain can paralyze you.”
― Gregory Dickow

“One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.”
― Rollo May

“I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.”
― Thomas Merton

“When we see a mountain too hard to climb, God helps us climb it but in His own time.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes

“How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?”
― Madeline Claire Franklin


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