Self Awareness

"You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you." - Margaret Atwood ...

“...before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” - Atticus, To Kill a Mockingbird ...

"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why." - William Barclay ...

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” - Carl Jung ...

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anais Nin ...

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.” - Thomas Szasz ...

"Find out who you are, and do it on purpose." - Dolly Parton ...

"How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as they are in their sunny ...

"A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.' - Michel de Montaigne ...

“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that dis-empowers them or one that can literally save their lives.” - ...