58 Self-Realization Quotes For Inspiration

In the fast-paced world we navigate daily, moments of introspection and self-discovery can serve as anchors, guiding us towards a more fulfilled and authentic life. Drawing from the wisdom of philosophers, thought leaders, and spiritual guides, our curated collection of 58 self-realization quotes offers a wellspring of inspiration, encouraging you to delve deeper into the essence of your being. Whether you're at the start of your journey or seeking a refresh, these quotes are designed to inspire introspection, motivate change, and illuminate the path to understanding and embracing your true self. Embark on this transformative journey with us, and let these profound insights resonate with your soul.

1. “Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.” - Heath L. Buckmaster

2. “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” - Rumi

3. “I am who I am; no more, no less.” - Terry Goodkind

4. “Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling” - Tony DeLiso

5. “I can last two months on a good compliment.” - Mark Twain

6. “A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.” - Rosamund Lupton

7. “Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your Self Realization. You are not to expect an explosion, for the explosion has already happened - at the moment when you were born, when you realized yourself as Being-Knowing-Feeling. There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right! You have to think yourself out of it. There is no other way.” - Nisargadatta Maharaj

8. “Question: You seem to advise me to be self-centered to the point ofegoism. Must I not yield even to my interest in other people?Maharaj: Your interest in others is egoistic, self-concerned, self-oriented. You are not interested in others as persons, but onlyas far as they enrich, or enoble your own image of yourself.And the ultimate in selfishness is to care only for the protection,preservation and multiplication of one's own body. By body Imean all that is related to your name and shape--- your family,tribe, country, race, etc. To be attached to one's name andshape is selfishness. A man who knows that he is neither bodynor mind cannot be selfish, for he has nothing to be selfish for.Or, you may say, he is equally 'selfish' on behalf of everybodyhe meets; everybody's welfare is his own. The feeling 'I am theworld, the world is myself' becomes quite natural; once it is es-tablished, there is just no way of being selfish. To be selfishmeans to covet, to acquire, accumulate on behalf of the partagainst the whole. I Am ThatNisargadatta Maharaj” - Nisargadatta Maharaj

9. “I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others.” - Lauryn Hill

10. “Pursue your goal. Opinions be damned.” - Stacy Verdick Case

11. “When life gives you lemons, use Cosmic Ordering!” - Stephen Richards

12. “Cosmic Ordering success sticks to you like mud to a blanket.” - Stephen Richards

13. “On the road to success some will always expect tragedy ... ditch your doubts and experience success with Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

14. “Whatever your desire, use Cosmic Ordering to get what you require!” - Stephen Richards

15. “In the beginning man was poor, then along came Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

16. “A clever person solves a problem; a wise person uses Cosmic Ordering!” - Stephen Richards

17. “The only secret of wealth creation is knowing how to use Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

18. “Human beings are incredibly slow, Cosmic Ordering is incredibly fast!” - Stephen Richards

19. “A man may fail many times, and then he turns to Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

20. “To fail is nothing, unless you continue to ignore Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

21. “There are more triumphs than defeats with Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

22. “Whatever you are seeking is also seeking you.” - Shakti Sharan

23. “Sometimes our Biggest Nightmare turns out to be our Biggest Gift. And it all comes down to our attitude. Life will throw us curve balls and disappointments, even heartbreak. But ultimately we can choose if we're going to be Bitter or Better for the experience.” - Kathryn Orford

24. “I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.” - Muriel Barbery

25. “Willful blindness sees no end of damage done.” - Stephen Richards

26. “When the jīva, reflected consciousness, has its inert association with the body totally destroyed and ignited by the fire of jñāna, it burns in the huge and extensive cremation ground, the cidākāśa. The vision of this excellent effulgence is similar to the sight of an unbounded conflagration that rages when a vast forest, dense with dried trees, catches fire and spreads in all directions.” - Muruganar

27. “The most important journey you will take in your life will usually be the one of self transformation. Often, this is the scariest because it requires the greatest changes, in your life.” - Shannon L. Alder

28. “You know how sometimes you can be going along and do something or say something, and suddenly you *know* yourself? I mean, it's like you're looking at somebody else, and it's just so fucking clear you want to hit something.” - Sarah Monette

29. “Und es gibt Menschen, die behaupten, Gott hätte das gesamte Universum erschaffen, um sich selbst sehen zu können. So wie wir immer unter Menschen gehen, weil wir uns über andere Menschen definieren. Weil wir nur durch die Art, wie sie sind, erkennen können, wie wir sind.” - Benjamin Lebert

30. “Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically, like writing, putting one word after the other until you have created a whole self and a whole life in the process.” - Michele Rosenthal

31. “People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.” - Shannon L. Alder

32. “What makes the self?Experiences. Acculturation.What else?I don't know.What's within you.She says, I don't know what was within me and what got put there by my life as it was lived.You can never know that.No.But there is a you that was there before you were born and that nobody shaped or changed or could have changed.” - Carolina De Robertis

33. “People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes the boy went two or three days without speaking a word, surly, and not eating, and when asked what was the matter, the answer was always the same: "There are content days and there are sad days. Each person is a master of his silence.” - Isabel Allende

34. “As the leaf takes its time finding the ground so must I.” - Cory Basil

35. “Saya melihat tumor itu semacam pemicu untuk saya mencari lebih dalam, mempertemukan saya dengan lebih banyak pengetahuan, membuka mata saya bahwa penyakit bukan sekadar gangguan. Tapi kode. Kode dari tubuh bahwa ada hal dalam hidup kita yang harus dibereskan.” - Dee

36. “A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.” - James Allen

37. “I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing” - Jonathan Tropper

38. “Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.” - Michael A. Singer

39. “To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath.” - Stephen Richards

40. “There are no ordinary people. The blur or everyday reality has created a world in which most of us have forgotten our unique and sacred existence...it is [our] true self, once discovered, that enables us to understand more clearly the nature of our world, and our own existence.” - Kim Chestney

41. “Her mother had once told her that one could run away from home, from husband, from children, from trouble, but it was impossible to run away from oneself. "You always have to take yourself with you," she said. And now, bending towards her mother, Hope wondered if in death you were finally able to run away from yourself. This might be death's gift. She knew that the thought wasn't terribly profound, but she was moved by the notion of completion and of escape.” - David Bergen

42. “Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life.” - jay woodman

43. “All are at war with the one who wars against self.” - E'yen A. Gardner

44. “The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us.” - Jack McDevitt

45. “Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

46. “While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

47. “Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.” - Shannon L. Alder

48. “Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly a coolness surrounds you and you need not be false because there is no other human being to be false to. You fall together.” - Osho

49. “A psychic reading is not just about career opportunities, good fortune or meeting tall, dark strangers. It is a sacred portal to manifesting your true destiny.” - Anthon St. Maarten

50. “Mave believed that not being able to see your life clearly, to scrutinize it intelligently, meant that probably you were at the dead center of it, and that couldn't possibly be a bad thing.” - Lorrie Moore

51. “Our mind takes an inventory of past events and uses them to project the probability of success in the future. Depending on the information it gathers, we either move forward—or thefear response is triggered and forward progress is circumvented. Page 48” - Nick Ortner

52. “Under chronic stress, your body is more apt to enter a state of dis-ease. Unable to achieve its natural balance, it can’t function the way it should. The ripple effects can be profound. And yet Western medicine has trained us to focus on symptomsrather than root causes like stress. Page 71” - Nick Ortner

53. “He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .” - Sheridan Hay

54. “All success comes through other people.” - Bryant McGill

55. “The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

56. “He hadn't meant to get so angry at Morgan. He didn't often get angry at other people. There was no sense in it. The person you were angry at was rarely ever repentant. Now, getting angry with yourself had some merit. It showed you had sense enough to chastise the one person who had any hope of benefiting from it. And he was plenty angry with himself. For many things.” - Sarah Addison Allen

57. “Run and hide or rise and shine ...” - Stephen Richards

58. “There's a way, a way way too long but reachable, not for everyone a way but possible... Go and don't lose your way!” - Rossana Condoleo