Self Awareness

"To be nobody but yourself in a world doing it's best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human can ever fight and never stop fighting" - E. E. Cummings ...

"The human being has a deep-rooted tendency to 'think only of self.' . . One who chooses to follow Christ, on the other hand, avoids being wrapped up in himself and does not evaluate things according to self-interest." - Pope ...

"We are so accustomed to disguising ourselves to others that, in the end, we become disguised to ourselves." - François de La Rochefoucauld ...

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be yourself." ...

“...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 ...

“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 ...