George Berkeley Quotes

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

I've been so in my moment about my life.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

One of my problems is to find the self.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.