Knowing Yourself Quotes

“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“Don't waste your time trying to provide people with proof of deceit, in order to keep their love, win their love or salvage their respect for you. The truth is this: If they care they will go out of their way to learn the truth. If they don't then they really don't value you as a human being. The moment you have to sell people on who you are is the moment you let yourself believe that every good thing you have ever done or accomplished was invisible to the world. And, it is not!”
― Shannon L. Alder

“We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you are and who you will become. The road to sanity is to recognize those identities, in order to know who you are today.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“You can't concern yourself with that. Certainly it would be wonderful if we all knew who we were. But that knowledge doesn't come from the outside, but from the inside.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader

“Change. Unlearning yourself is more important than knowing yourself.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson Self Reliance

“The best knowledge is knowing yourself and your inner being.”
― Debasish Mridha

“A person who does not know himself... can not commit to another person. Without being genuine to yourself you are unable to be genuine to anyone else.”
― Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble, The Talking Stick Diaries: Cherish Your Soul

“At the end of constantly feeling the need to prove something is usually where we find our greatest freedom.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“To get back to the person I am, I had to reject so much of who I was told that I was.”
― Allyson Dinneen, Notes From Your Therapist

“I'm traveling a speed
unknown to man
and I carry love for all
in the mirror of my hand.

I say love for all…don't try to run away...
look at the mirrors of your heart.
Face the truth today—

I am what I am, thank God.
Some people don't understand,
Help them, God—
I say find yourself first, and then your tool.
I say find yourself first, don't you be no fool.

Here comes a woman, sweat all down her back.
For birth or for pleasure, she's on the right track…
But for being free, she ain't supposed to plea.
And don't rely on no man to try and understand.
I say find yourself first
and then your talent.
Work hard in your mind
for it to come alive.
And then prove to the man
that you're as strong as him.
'Cause in the eyes of God…
you're both children to him…

You are what you are, thank God.
You gonna shine like a star
with the help of God—
But we find ourselves first
and then our tool…
Find yourself, don't be no fool.”
― Jimi Hendrix, Cherokee Mist: The Lost Writings

“I know that I'm a human being and that I'm a man and that I am conscious and here...other than that I know nothing.
Admitting that leaves me open to possibly having a better understanding of myself, if I'm fortunate enough.”
― Tim Storrs, words from a man that knows nothing: a collection of thoughts and poems

“You can learn only your own self from a person who looks like you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“We walk from darkness to light,
From light back to darkness again,
From unknown to known,
Known back to unknown”
― Eric Overby, Legacy

“To know your mind,
you need a little distance.
You need to be a step or two away
and be able to notice
what your mind is doing
without being so lost or involved in it
that you can’t see it.
It’s like trying to see your eyes.
If you want to see yourself,
you need to create some space,
you need a mirror.
Stillness, mindfulness, meditation:
these are the mirrors.”
― Eric Overby, Legacy

“If you want to see yourself closely, look at yourself from far away!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Accept what it is that you want, no matter what it is or what other people might think. I wish I did that or knew that when I was 18, but my mind might change about that later...”
― Kaise hamdan

“We do things, we never thought we would, we live things we never thought we would, we think things we never thought we would. We barely know ourselves.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“I certainly learned to be at ease with myself in the years I spent at Penlan, but it was not by knowing myself better – it was by forgetting I was there. I had become a part of the landscape, a stone.”
― Neil Ansell, Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills

“Next, I went in the shower to lather every inch of my body and stayed for so long inside, I walked away with soggy fingertips. I think we should have soggy fingertips at least once a day. The shower is the only place we can be ourselves before they take us away again.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“If one knows, one cares; if one does not care, one does not know.”
― Esther Lightcap Meek

“Over time, from trial and error, and one experience after another, you start to become more familiar with yourself. You learn what excites you, and just as importantly you learn what repels you. You begin to develop that 'I could see myself doing this forever' feeling, whether it's about a line of work or a relationship. You want to look for clues as to what really matters to you. And you want to get better at making decisions accordingly.”
― Julie Lythcott-Haims, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult

“When we shut down certain feelings, it's easy to lose our natural relationship with them. But having feelings is an essential part of being human. They are the essence of who you are as a person, and without them it's hard to know important things about yourself like:
who you are,
what kind of relationships you want,
what you want to do for work or purpose,
what gives your life meaning.
All of these things require having access to your feelings.”
― Allyson Dinneen, Notes From Your Therapist

“Because one who creates themselves, is remarkably unstoppable.”
― Robin S. Baker, Esotericism With an Unconventional Soul: Exploring Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, and Mysticism

“Joy is our ultimate truth. Joy comes from the roots of our being. It comes from our deepest core. Everything else is on the periphery, on the circumference. 
Joy is really the search for our own being. it is the search for knowing oneself. It is the search to discover one's true nature.The moment we know who we are,  joy happens. And the moment we are joyful, we know who we are. 
Joy is the taste of  our being. If we do not find our joy, only we are responsible. We are not searching, we are not interested. We do not have the commitment to go into the depth of ourselves. When one is ready to go into  the depth of ourselves, a new joy happens. ”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine

“I woke up and I didn’t know who I was, so I came down here so I could find me.”
― Seanan McGuire, Half-Off Ragnarok

“Be the same person in different situations.”
― Kyle Draper, Rethink Everything: You “Know" About Social Media

“It is worth repeating to be wary of the thought that you should put the work down and come back to it later. This is the negative mind attempting to delay you from your knowing. (p. x)”
― Melanie DewBerry, The Power of Naming: A Journey toward Your Soul's Indigenous Nature

“It often happens that I don't know myself, which is typical in those who know themselves. I look at myself in the various disguises that make me alive.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet