Emily Saliers Quotes

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

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 had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

I feel like I'm still at a point where I have a lot to learn from watching myself, so I find that it helps. But it's always weird.

Especially since I started studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment. I definitely think I wasn't very present prior to that.

I'm just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that.

I know now that much of the pressure that resulted in my breakdown was self-imposed. I didn't let myself enjoy the opportunities I was given, choosing instead to doubt myself.

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

I have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

I have angst in my life, but I'm like anybody. We all have angst in our lives that we pick up and fidget with and then we put down and look at some other things that make us feel good or enjoy our lives.

the point of educating instead of blaming seems to me very important. For nothing stultifies one more than being blamed. Moreover, if the question is, who is to blame?, perhaps each will want to place the blame on someone else, or on the other hand, someone may try to shield his fellow-worker. In either case the attempt is to hide the error and if this is done the error cannot be corrected.

The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.

You can never get rid of all of your fears. Some are necessary and a part of life. But most of our fears are illusory, based on risks or threats that exist only in our minds. Such fears constrain and make you miserable. The feeling of moving past a particular fear is one of liberation and freedom.

A study of the Great Malady; horror of home.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.