40 self-knowledge phrases that will bring more clarity to your life

Who looks outside, dreams. Whoever looks inside, wakes up.

Carl Jung

Practice self-knowledge, after all, you will have to live with yourself every day.

We want clarity on who we are, clarity on what we like, clarity on how to deal with pain and clarity on how to deconstruct and untie knots. And this path only takes place through the heart and the courage to act with it.

Sad for the man who dies known to all, but unknown to himself.

Francis Bacon

Study yourself, observing that self-knowledge brings humility and without humility it is impossible to be happy.

Allan Kardec

Nobody is able to change the other. Not even for love. Change takes place through self-knowledge and intimate reform.

The more you organize on the inside, the more life is organized on the outside.

Find your roots. Go into the core of your being. Discover yourself. Explore yourself. Love yourself. Open your eyes and see beyond everyday blindness.

Othon Leslen

I looked at myself in the mirror and asked, “Who are you?” And he said, “Your choices”.

Looking within and stilling the mind is the best way to connect with your true essence.

No one but ourselves can make us so amazing, so powerful, and so beautiful. Because the beauty that you see on the outside is the same that you keep inside.

Who, therefore, does not love solitude, does not love freedom either: it is only when you are alone that you are free.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is necessary to look. Look at what you feel. Look at your family history. Understand where you really came from. Look at what you think. Look for what you like. Looking naked in the mirror. Meet. It has to be.

To reach fullness is to reach the ecstasy of oneself.

The next frontier isn’t just in front of you, it’s inside you.

Robert K. Cooper

Getting to know yourself is a long and often painful process. But the harvested fruits are sweet and worth it!

The death of what we are or the death of parts of what makes us is, and always will be, a painful process.

Man’s true profession is to find his way to himself.

Hermann Hesse

The people and circumstances around me don’t make me what I am, they reveal who I am.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Finding out is like peeling onions: every layer that comes off is a cry. However, the onion ends, self-knowledge does not.

Every now and then you have to take a break and visit yourself.

Audrey Giorgi

Even if you’ve already gone a long way, there’s always a new way to go.

Saint Augustine

I am me and my circumstance, and if I don’t save it, I don’t save myself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

It takes courage to grow up and become what you really are.

Edward Estlin Cummings

Meditation is one of the most powerful tools for self-knowledge. It is in silence that the answer is found.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

With each breath comes the possibility of a new aspect of ourselves.

Wayne Muller

We need to remind ourselves every day of what we want and who we are, because we forget even that.

The important thing is not what they make of us, but what we make of what others have made of us.

Jean-Paul Sartre

All personal evolution is done with great care and attention to one’s own feelings. Always be aligned with your essence.

He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened.

Lao Tzu

There is only one corner of the universe that you can be sure of perfecting: yourself.

Aldous Huxley

Living is always worth more. The experience, no matter how painful, will always be worth more. Owning your own desires is always better than pretending they don’t exist. Movement puts you forward and heals you!

The best way to find yourself is to get lost in serving others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Know yourself.

Socrates

Always be your own safe haven. Always find a way to get back to yourself.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Mark Rutherford

We don’t always do what we want. Often, we do what it takes. Get up, walk and keep trusting life and your internal processes, especially when it didn’t work.