Quotes about Self-knowledge
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Until you make peace with who you are, you`ll never be content with what you have.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: `If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?` And whenever the answer has been `No` for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
We don`t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don`t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.