Quotes about Self-awareness
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
— Erica Jong
Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
— Marcus Aurelius
Either you're going to be depressed when your wish is not realized or foolishly pleased with yourself if it is, overjoyed for the wrong reasons.
— Marcus Aurelius
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
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
— Marcus Aurelius
Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.
— Cicero
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.
— Margaret Atwood
We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups.
— Margaret Atwood
I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
— Margaret Fuller
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
— Marianne Williamson
In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.
— Marty Rubin
Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).
— Oprah Winfrey