Self-awareness is essential for gaining a better understanding of one’s emotions, strengths, limitations and aspirations. Being able to take a step back, listen to your feelings and identify your needs enables you to make choices that are more in line with who you are, to gain confidence and to move forward with greater clarity. Discover 10 inspiring quotes on self-awareness to help you develop a better understanding of yourself and build lasting personal balance.
Self-knowledge is a rebirth into one’s own light, into one’s own sun. A man who knows himself is a man who is truly alive.
Marie-Madeleine Davy, French philosopher, poet and novelist
Freedom comes from self-knowledge.
Buddha, religious spiritual leader
Ultimately, every form of knowledge is a form of self-knowledge.
Bruce Lee, actor, filmmaker and martial artist
Every day is an opportunity to get to know yourself at the very depths of your soul. If you carry on without trying to understand who you really are, you’ll just be treading water.
Anaïs Nin, a Franco-American writer
Who knows your needs better than you do? Getting to know yourself is the first step towards self-care…
Jean de la Fontaine, a French man of letters
To know others is wisdom. To know oneself is greater wisdom.
Lao-Tseu, the founding father of Taoism
Adversity is essential to self-knowledge. It is through experience that we come to realise the extent of our own strengths.
Seneca, Roman philosopher
Everything that irritates us about other people helps us to understand ourselves better.
Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist
The way you treat others is a direct reflection of how you feel about yourself.
Paulo Coelho, Brazilian writer
He who knows himself is his own master.
Pierre de Ronsard, French poet
