1. The greatest wisdom that exists is to know yourself. (Galileo Galilei)
If we know ourselves, we will reach a qualitatively higher level of wisdom.
2. Your task is not to search for love, but simply to search and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. (Rumi)
To find love we have to break down the obstacles we have in our minds and hearts.
3. For some men, costumes do not disguise them, but reveal them. Each one disguises himself as what he is inside. (Chesterton)
What you show on the outside reflects how you are on the inside.
4. 95% of our thoughts today are the same as those of yesterday and tomorrow. When you begin to think differently and have new thoughts, what you do is begin to know yourself better. (Stanislaus Bachrach)
The situations are the same, only the way of seeing them changes.
5. Above all things, take care of your heart, because life comes from it. (Proverbs 4:23)
Feelings must be taken care of since they are a fundamental part of life.
6. Knowing others is intelligence, knowing oneself is wisdom. Managing others is strength, managing yourselves is true power. (Tao Te Ching)
Knowing your thoughts and knowing how to control them is what true power is based on.
7. When you recover or discover something that feeds your soul and brings you joy, make sure you love yourself enough and make space for it in your life. (Jean Shinoda Bolen)
When you find what makes you happy, don’t let it go.
Being sensitive to our emotions is something that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
13. At the moment of truth, which is to search for oneself objectively, one forgets everything and prepares to be faithful only to one’s own sincerity. (Gerardo Diego)
Being honest with yourself is a way to exercise self-fidelity.
14. Creative people are the ones who have the most self-knowledge. (Stanislaus Bachrach)
Creativity expresses our feelings.
15. All the wonders you seek are within your own being. (Sir Thomas Browne)
Do not look for happiness outside as it resides within yourself.
19. The man who has the same vision of the world at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. (Muhammad Ali)
As we mature we see things differently.
20. I worry about myself. Whether I am the loneliest or the one with the most friends, I will always respect myself. (Gautama Buddha)
Self-respect is the first thing we must have.
21. You must give everything to achieve a life as beautiful as the one that dances in your imagination. (Roman Payne)
Work to have that life you have imagined so much.
22. Those who run in a labyrinth are confused by their very speed. (Seneca)
What does not move stagnates.
23. I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover myself. (Jerzy Kosinski)
There are circumstances in which it forces us to bring out the best in ourselves.
24. It is a great first step to being able to recognize what makes you happy. (Lucille Ball)
Knowing ourselves leads to true happiness.
25. Any life, no matter how complex, is made up of a single moment. The moment when a man discovers, once and for all, who he is. (Jorge Luis Borges)
When we really know ourselves, we begin to live fully.
26. Always remember that you not only have the right to be an individual, but you have the obligation to be one (Eleanor Roosevelt)
No matter the difficulties, we are unique and valuable people.
27. Knowledge has no value unless it is put into practice. (Anton Chekhov)
What is not practiced is forgotten.
28. When you are different, you often don’t see the millions of people who accept themselves for who they are. Only the person who doesn’t do it is noticed. (Jodi Picoult)
We are always criticizing those who do not change their attitude.
29. A desire to be someone else would be a loss of the person I really am. (Marilyn Monroe)
Wanting to be someone else is an act of weakness.
30. What you discover for yourself is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you; It is like romantic love marriage or an arranged marriage. (Terrence Rafferty)
Always seek to live your own experiences.
31. People often say that they haven’t found themselves yet. But the self is not something one finds, but something one creates. (Thomas Szasz)
Having a connection with yourself is something that you seek to do yourself.
32. Sometimes at night, I turn on the light so as not to see my own darkness. (Antonio Porchia)
The inner emptiness is very hard to accept.
33. I have only made the decision to change things a little and to live what I have left thinking a little about myself for a change. (Helen Fielding)
Putting ourselves above others is a courageous and important act.
34. By completing this questionnaire, I have learned to understand myself better as a person and reflect on my behaviors and understand what my weaknesses are (Alec Martinez Authentic Jersey)
Knowing yourself allows you to know what abilities and defects you have.
35. Low self-esteem is like driving through life with the handbrake on. (Maxwell Maltz)
Not having confidence in our abilities leads down a path full of obstacles.
36. Knowledge is power. (Francis Bacon)
If we know our feelings, then we will have the power.
37. Don’t let mental blocks control you. Break free. Face your fear and transform your mental blocks into building blocks. (Roopleen)
Don’t let your fears rule you.
38. Decide to be yourself, and make sure that whoever finds himself loses his misery. (Matthew Arnold)
Don’t be a copy of anyone, look for your personality.
39. Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another step towards greatness. (Oprah Winfrey)
Don’t be afraid to fail, that makes you great.
40. Those who never recant their opinions love themselves more than the truth. (Joseph Joubert)
Being proud brings bad consequences.
41. Is it a man, a ghost, a name or a memory that I want? (Celia del Palacio)
Imagination can do anything we want.
42. The moment a man speaks of his own person is the moment he shows himself at least. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth. (Oscar Wilde)
We don’t always tell the truth about our personality.
43. What is before us and behind us are just small things compared to what is within us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Look inside, you will be surprised at what is there.
44. Knowing yourself is the beginning of wisdom. (Aristotle)
Being able to know each other in depth is something that requires patience and tenacity.
45. You can search throughout the universe for someone who is worthy of your love and affection, but that person is not found anywhere. That person is yourself.
No one deserves your love more than yourself.
46. ​​A diamond does not start out as a shiny, polished gemstone. It was once nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, it became something spectacular. I am that diamond. (Solange Nicole)
Work hard to achieve a good version of yourself.
47. The supreme happiness in life is to know that you are loved for yourself or, more accurately, in spite of yourself. (Victor Hugo)
Seek to be loved for who you are and not for what you are.
48. The main obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge. (Daniel J. Boorstin)
Wanting to have more knowledge is what makes a man vain.
49. Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you won’t do anything with it (M. Scott Peck)
Value your time as it won’t come back.
50. The only journey is the inner journey. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Knowing yourself is what leads to success.
51. Life has been given to each human being for a very special purpose. Each human being must discover this secret for himself. (Sri Chinmoy)
Discover for yourself what life has in store for you.
52. Each of us is on earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we follow someone else’s. (James van Praagh)
Each person has their own path, the question is knowing how to find it.
53. There is only a small part of the universe that you will know for sure that can be improved, and that part is you. (Aldous Huxley)
You are the only one capable of making you change.
54. There is no magic cure to make everything you don’t like disappear forever. There are only small steps up; a calmer day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that no longer matters. (Michel de Montaigne)
With calm and patience, we can free ourselves from what we do not like.
55. Knowing yourself is not only the most difficult, but also the most uncomfortable. (H.W. Shaw)
It is not easy to recognize mistakes.
56. Not even the best explorer in the world makes trips as long as that man who descends to the depths of his heart. (Julien Green)
Knowing our interior is a journey that sometimes causes damage.
57. Knowing the things that make one miserable is already a kind of happiness. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Knowing what makes you unhappy is an important step to achieving true peace of mind.
58. After all these years I am still involved in the process of self-knowledge. (Sophia Loren)
Self-knowledge never ends.
59. All men must strive to understand, before they die, what and where they run, and why they run. (James Thurber)
You must know the path to follow and why it should be done.
60. A person cannot be comfortable without his own approval. (Mark Twain)
Consent towards oneself is what must prevail.
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61. Fear is incomplete knowledge. (Christie Agatha)
Fear paralyzes everything.
62. The greatest thing in the world is knowing how to be master of yourself. (Michel de Montaigne)
Seek to govern yourself, before wanting to dominate others.
63. Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. (Jackson Pollock)
Through painting you express what you have inside.
64. Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what turns you on.
Focus on doing what makes you happy.
65. When the situation is adverse and hope is low, drastic determinations are the safest. (Livy)
In difficult situations, radical decisions are advisable.
66. I don’t understand this desire to know oneself and delve into the filthy bowels of one’s identity, sometimes even with the help of professionals. What does one expect to find in that dunghill? (Luis Landero)
We may find something inside us that we don’t like.
67. A man can faint from lack of personal fulfillment as much as from lack of daily bread. (Richard Wright)
Whoever does not fulfill himself personally, loses his strength.
68. Self-care is not a selfish act, it is simply the proper management of the only gift I have, the gift I am in the world to offer to others. (Parker Palmer)
Take care of yourself, no one will do it like you do yourself.
69. More than knowledge diminishes the Ego, the less knowledge, the more Ego. (Albert Einstein)
Learn something new every day.
70. They can attack your dignity, they can make fun of you, but they can never take away your essence, unless you surrender. (Michael J. Fox)
Don’t give up, always fight.
71. The Self is very well hidden from itself; of the wells with treasures, the Self is the last to be extracted. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
Don’t pay attention to everything else, focus on yourself.
72. Face the dark parts of yourself and work to banish them with enlightenment and forgiveness. Your willingness to fight your demons will make your angels sing. (August Wilson)
Forgiving yourself is an act of love.
73. Seek the depth of things; That’s where irony never manages to descend. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Always seek to understand what is happening inside you so that you can understand what is happening around you.
74. From wanting to be to believing that one is, one goes the distance from the tragic or the comic. (Jose Ortega y Gasset)
Believing is having faith in something and wanting is knowing what we can obtain.
75. By undermining our souls too deeply, we expose ourselves to touching what might go unnoticed. (Leo Tolstoy)
Knowing our interior allows us to find things that we may not understand.
76. Like an old miner, you must resign yourself to extracting a pile of sand from which you will then patiently filter a few particles of gold. (Dorothy Bryant)
Things don’t happen as easily as we think.
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77. Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we trust their opinions more than ours? (Brigham Young)
Focus on what you think of yourself.
78. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
With imagination we go very far.
79. I am starting to measure my worth, but not in pounds, but in smiles. (Laurie Halse)
The smile is the reflection of our interior.
80. The man who does not value himself cannot value anything or anyone. (Ayn Rand)
If you don’t know how to appreciate it, it will be very difficult for you to do so with others.
81. When you don’t know what to do, be human. (Daniel Taroppio)
Never lose your human essence.
82. Only those who manage to believe that they are what they are not survive survive. (Rafael Chirbes)
Believing in yourself helps you overcome the challenges that life provides.
83. There is no greater satisfaction than looking back and realizing that one has grown in self-control, judgment, generosity and selflessness. (She Wheeler Wilcox)
Inner growth is what is worth it.
84. Don’t depend on someone else to be happy and to value you. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself, no one can make that happen. (Stacey Charter)
Self-love is the most important.
85. If you sing only with your voice, you will have to be silent in the end; Sing with your life to never be silent. (Augustine of Hippo)
Life is very beautiful, enjoy it.
86. Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot surpass our level of self-esteem nor can we attract to ourselves anything more than what we believe we are worth. (Iyanla Vanzant)
What you think about yourself is what is reflected outside of you.
87. Take care of order so that order takes care of you. (Augustine of Hippo)
Always try to be orderly, that is where success lies.
88. If you don’t get lost, there’s a chance you’ll never be found. (Anonymous)
Getting lost along the way is a way to find the right direction.
89. It is not until we are lost that we begin to understand ourselves. (Henry David Thoreau)
When we are on a path that leads to nothing, that is when we begin to understand many things.
90. I prefer to be true to myself, even knowing that others may mock me, rather than be false, and incur my own loathing. (Frederick Douglass)
