Top 200 Self-Realization Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”

— Deepak Chopra

52. “Vulnerability is not about winning, and it’s not about losing. It’s about having the courage to show up and be seen.”

— Brené Brown

53. “It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”

— William Ernest Henley

54. “Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”

— Eckhart Tolle

55. “The Universe favors the brave. When you resolve to lift your life to its highest level, the strength of your soul will guide you to a magical place with magnificent treasures.”

— Robin S. Sharma

56. “To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.”

— Deepak Chopra

57. “The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.”

— Rumi

58. “Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?”

— Eckhart Tolle

59. “Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.”

— Eckhart Tolle

60. “If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

— Abraham Maslow

61. “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”

— Rumi

62. “It wasn’t until I began to work on my inner life and know myself that my life changed. Success really does begin within. The size and quality of your outer life is only limited by the size and quality of your inner life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

63. “Past and future are in the mind only – I am now.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

64. “Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

65. “You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”

— Rumi

66. “As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

67. “Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”

— Buddha

68. “However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.”

— Swami Vivekananda

69. “All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”

— Joseph Campbell

70. “What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”

— Confucius

71. “He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”

— Lao Tzu

72. “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

73. “To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become.”

— Eric Thomas

74. “Every change is a challenge to become who we really are.”

— Marianne Williamson

75. “In today’s rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.”

— Eckhart Tolle

76. “Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

77. “I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”

— Brené Brown

78. “A dream is only a dream until you decide to make it real.”

— Harry Styles

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

— C.G. Jung

80. “You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

— Eckhart Tolle

81. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”

— Aldous Huxley

82. “All problems are illusions of the mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

83. “I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. ”

— Joss Whedon

84. “The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. ”

— Socrates

85. “Do the thing and you will have the power.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

86. “Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.”

— James Allen

87. “Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.”

— Osho

88. “Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.”

— Eckhart Tolle

89. “We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.”

— Marianne Williamson

90. “Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.”

— Eckhart Tolle

91. “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— C.G. Jung

92. “Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

93. “Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.”

— Ramana Maharshi

94. “All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.”

— Alan Watts

95. “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”

— J.K. Rowling

96. “Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.”

— Brian Tracy

97. “If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world.”

— Paulo Coelho

98. “A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.”

— Zig Ziglar

99. “Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their growth.”

— John Whitmore

100. “On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.”

— Eckhart Tolle