Top 200 Self-Realization Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.”

— Brené Brown

102. “Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.”

— Earl Nightingale

103. “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”

— Joseph Campbell

104. “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

— Henry David Thoreau

105. “Risk, then, is not just part of life. It is life. The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place. It’s the high-anxiety zone, but it’s also where you discover who you are.”

— Nick Vujicic

106. “I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.”

— John Muir

107. “You are already that which you seek.”

— Ramana Maharshi

108. “Be a lamp unto yourself.”

— Buddha

109. “Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

110. “Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

111. “For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.”

— Bruce Lee

112. “Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.”

— Charles Bukowski

113. “For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”

— Marcus Aurelius

114. “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus

115. “The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.”

— Myles Munroe

116. “Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”

— Eckhart Tolle

117. “Fear only exists when you do not understand that you have the power to project thought and that the Universe will respond.”

— Esther Hicks

118. “Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.”

— Bruce Lee

119. “Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”

— Rumi

120. “We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.”

— Eckhart Tolle

121. “Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”

— Neville Goddard

122. “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

— John Steinbeck

123. “Meditation is the action of silence.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

124. “I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

125. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

— Norman Cousins

126. “Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.”

— William Faulkner

127. “Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.”

— Ramana Maharshi

128. “You are not your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

129. “One conscious breath in and out is a meditation.”

— Eckhart Tolle

130. “Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.”

— Chetan Bhagat

131. “When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

— Audre Lorde

132. “Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”

— Alan Watts

133. “Yoga is not just doing some exercise, it is much more. It is to expand your awareness, sharpen your intellect and enhance your intuitive ability.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

134. “When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.”

— Alan Watts

135. “Become conscious of being conscious.”

— Eckhart Tolle

136. “Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

137. “We are the mirror – As well as the face in it.”

— Rumi

138. “Each person is born with an infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance.”

— Neville Goddard

139. “Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural.”

— Oprah Winfrey

140. “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

141. “I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.”

— Robin S. Sharma

142. “Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.”

— Deepak Chopra

143. “My soul is my guide, for my soul is of that abode. I will not speak of the earthly. I am of the unknown.”

— Rumi

144. “Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

145. “Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”

— Henry David Thoreau

146. “Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery.”

— Gretchen Rubin

147. “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”

— Coco Chanel

148. “Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.”

— Henry David Thoreau

149. “Man conquers the world by conquering himself.”

— Zeno of Citium

150. “Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”

— Marcus Aurelius