Self Understanding Quotes

Self Understanding Quote of the day

Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

We read books to find out who we are.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

When you act on your impulses to play, when you are open to the possibilities in each moment, you replace your fears with self-understanding, self-esteem, and personal strength.

Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.

Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God’s majesty.

I don’t know what understanding myself is. I don’t look inside.I don’t believe I exist behind myself.

The thing that matters most is what matters to you, not anybody else.

Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance.

I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.

To ask who we are represents a primary reflex in human consciousness. Every person seeks to understand him or herself and reach a verifiable and cohesive image of his or her own identity.

I may not know what my heart truly holds, but who does? I think we're all mysteries, even to ourselves.

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

It is not until you learn to look at yourself, through the truth of who you are, that you can look at someone else.

Self-knowledge, a spiritual metamorphosis, precedes understanding other people and comprehending the beauty of being part of the spontaneous interplay of the natural world.

Time alone helps us to remember who we are.

What I do is the truest mirror of who I am.

You are nature. You are already perfect, peaceful, and powerful. You don’t need to become anything. You simply need to remember yourself.

The man that wars with and judges others is eternally lost. The man that wars with and judges himself is eternally found.

There is a difference between working hard to create a life that truly serves you and working hard to create a life that you’ve been told you should want.

Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking ‘muck’ across the floor of fact.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

Self-questioning and a desire to gain self-understanding is the fêted act of humankind.

You'd be surprised how often you doubt your own sanity when you don't understand your own capacities.