2,872 Quotes About Self-awareness

When you first get started, there's usually a big gap between what you are and what you want to be. If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started being creative, well I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Just like your body naturally responds positively to some foods, your mind naturally responds positively to some thoughts.

I write awe-thoughts flowing in my mind.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.

You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you.

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