561 Quotes About Self-knowledge

No one can live life fully without the knowledge of the soul, no matter what.

In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become, for the time being, a new creature.

SELF KNOWLEDGE changes you as a person into someone more confident and sure of one's decisions!

For the first time in my life I know what I want and I have what it takes to get me there. If you never experienced that I feel sorry for you. But it wasn’t always like this. I have been through fire to get here. I seen things and done things and had shit done to me you couldn’t barely credit. So be happy for me. And for fucksake don’t get in my way.

In the months after the relationship ends, a person can seem to grow at a lightning rate, like in a nature documentary where weeks of footage is run at high speed to show a plant unfurling in seconds, but in reality the person has been growing all along, under the surface, and it is only in their new freedom, in their hair-raising aloneness, that the person can allow for these underground things to break through and unfurl themselves in the light.

Being understood takes precedence over being loved. If you’re loved without being understood, then you have to live in fear; the fear that one day your lover will come to understand you and then not love you any more. But if you’re understood first, if your lover knows and accepts who you really are, then it is truly you who is being loved, and you can love and be loved without fear.

When we suspect that we are appropriate targets for hurt, it does not take much for us to believe that someone or something is out to hurt us

Are you indoctrinated?Think of anything you believe in be it religious or social, like economic systems or systems of government, etc., and think if you had ALL the information about what you believe in, and ALL the information about all the other/rival systems, and remember if you chose to adopt the one or the other by critical thinking or objective reasoning…No? …

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.